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Book SynopsisThis volume offers a systematic crosslinguistic account of evidentiality, the linguistic encoding of the source of information on which a statement is based. It explores a range of topics relating to evidentiality and provides case studies from a variety of language families as diverse as Algonquian, Korean, and Uralic.
Trade Review...is essential for anyone who wishes to study evidentiality in depth and crosslinguistically. It is hereby highly recommended * Johan Van Der Auwera,Language vol. 84, No.1, 2008 *
...marks a major advance in the study of evidentiality ... Aikenvald has opened the floor for discussion, and everyone with an interest in this area can only appreciate this. * Heiko Narrog, SKY journal of Linguistics *
...a truly superb example of a cross-linguistic survey of a grammatical category... This book belongs in every linguistics library. * Edward J Vajda, Western Washington University *
...an impressive typological survey of evidentiality systems in the world's languages... With its numerous carefully glossed example sentences and its various summarizing tables, Aikhenvald's book opens up a fascinating aspect of natural language grammar to future systematic enquiry. * The Year's Works in English Studies *
The most important current resource for anyone interested in the nature and typology of evidentials. * Margaret Speas, University of Massachusetts *
Table of Contents1: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald: Evidentiality: The framework Part I: Evidentiality: Its Expression, Scope, and History 2: Jackson T.-S. Sun: Evidentials and person 3: Diana Forker: Evidentiality and its relations with other verbal categories 4: Björn Wiemer: Evidentials and epistemic modality 5: Guillaume Jacques: Non-propositional evidentiality 6: Victor Friedman: Where do evidentials come from? 7: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald: Evidentiality and language contact Part II: Evidentials in Cognition, Communication, and Society 8: Ercenür Ünal and Anna Papafragou: Evidentials, information sources, and cognition 9: Stanka Fitneva: The acquisition of evidentiality 10: Janis Nuckolls: The interactional and cultural pragmatics of evidentiality in Pastaza Quichua 11: Rosaleen Howard: Evidence and evidentiality in Quechua narrative discourse 12: Michael Wood: Stereotypes and evidentiality Part III: Evidentiality and Information Sources: Further Issues and Approaches 13: Kasper Boye: Evidentiality: The notion and the term 14: Mario Squartini: Extragrammatical expression of information source 15: Margaret Speas: Evidentiality and formal semantic theories Part IV: Evidentiality across the World 16: Eithne B. Carlin: Evidentiality and the Cariban languages 17: David Eberhard: Evidentiality in Nambikwara languages 18: Kristine Stenzel and Elsa Gomez-Imbert: Evidentiality in Tukanoan languages 19: Katarzyna I. Wojtylak: Evidentiality in Bora and Witotoan languages 20: Tim Thornes: Evidentiality in the Uto-Aztecan languages 21: Marie-Odile Junker, Conor M. Quinn, and J. Randolph Valentine: Evidentiality in Algonquian 22: Tyler Peterson: Evidentiality and epistemic modality in Gitksan 23: Diana Forker: Evidentiality in Nakh-Daghestanian languages 24: Lars Johanson: Turkic indirectivity 25: Elena Skribnik and Petar Kehayov: Evidentials in Uralic languages 26: Benjamin Brosig and Elena Skribnik: Evidentiality in Mongolic 27: Scott DeLancey: Evidentiality in Tibetic 28: Gwendolyn Hyslop: Evidentiality in Bodic languages 29: Anne Storch: Evidentiality and the expression of knowledge: An African perspective 30: Hannah Sarvasy: Evidentiality in the languages of New Guinea 31: Chia-jung Pan: Evidentiality in Formosan languages 32: Josephine S. Daguman: Reportatives in the languages of the Philippines 33: Ho-min Sohn: Evidentiality in Korean 34: Heiko Narrog and Wenjiang Yang: Evidentiality in Japanese 35: Asier Alcázar: Dizque and other emergent evidential forms in Romance languages 36: Sherman Wilcox and Barbara Shaffer: Evidentiality and information source in signed languages
