Semantics of evidentials /

This book provides a compositional, truth-conditional, crosslinguistic semantics for evidentiality, the linguistic encoding of the source information on which a statement is based. The new proposal is based on extensive data from Cheyenne, English, and a variety of other languages.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Murray, Sarah E. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Oxford studies in semantics and pragmatics.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Summary:This book provides a compositional, truth-conditional, crosslinguistic semantics for evidentiality, the linguistic encoding of the source information on which a statement is based. The new proposal is based on extensive data from Cheyenne, English, and a variety of other languages.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780191760952
0191760951
9780191503795
0191503797