The Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality offers a thorough, systematic, and crosslinguistic account of evidentiality, the linguistic encoding of the source of information on which a statement is based. In some languages, the speaker always has to specify this source - for example whether they saw the event, heard it, inferred it based on visual evidence or common sense, or was told about it by someone else. While not all languages have obligatory marking of this type, every language has ways of referring to information source and associated epistemological meanings. The continuum of epistemological expressions covers a range of devices from the lexical means in familiar European languages and in many languages of Aboriginal Australia to the highly grammaticalized systems in Amazonia or North America. In this handbook, experts from a variety of fields explore topics such as the relationship between evidentials and epistemic modality, contact-induced changes in evidential systems, the acquisition of evidentials, and formal semantic theories of evidentiality. The Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality also contains detailed case studies of evidentiality in language families across the world, including Algonquian, Korean, Nakh-Dagestanian, Nambikwara, Turkic, Uralic, and Uto-Aztecan.
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Weight: 1650g
Dimensions: 170 x 245mm
Publication Date: 08 Feb 2024
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780198901013
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Aikhenvald is a major authority on languages of the Arawak family from northern Amazonia and has written grammars of Bare (1995) and Warekena (1998) plus A Grammar of Tariana from Northwest Amazonia (CUP 2003) and The Manambu language of East Sepik Papua New Guinea (OUP 2008) in addition to essays on various typological and areal topics and numerous edited volumes. Her other major publications include Evidentiality (OUP 2004) Imperatives and Commands (OUP 2010) Languages of the Amazon (OUP 2012) The Art of Grammar (OUP 2014) How gender shapes the world (OUP 2016) Serial verbs (OUP 2018) The web of knowledge: evidentiality at the cross-roads (Brill 2021) I saw the dog: how language works (Profile Books 2021) and A guide to gender and classifiers (OUP forthcoming).