Semantics of evidentials

Semantics of evidentials / Sarah E. Murray.

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.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Murray, Sarah E.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Oxford studies in semantics and pragmatics.
Subjects:
Evidentials (Linguistics)
Semantics.
semantics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > General.
Semantics
Evidentialität
Semantik
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; The Semantics of Evidentials; Copyright; Contents; General preface; Preface; List of tables; List of figures; List of abbreviations; Cheyenne glosses; Cheyenne orthography; Language codes; 1: Introduction; 2: A semantic classification of evidentials; 2.1 Challengeability and commitment; 2.1.1 Direct and indirect challengeability; 2.1.2 Commitment to scope; 2.1.3 Commitment to evidence; 2.1.4 Summary; 2.2 Embedding and projection; 2.2.1 Negation; 2.2.2 Tense and modality; 2.2.3 Conditionals; 2.2.4 Embedding verbs; 2.2.5 Summary; 2.3 Interaction with questions; 2.3.1 Polar interrogatives.
  • 2.3.2 Content interrogatives2.3.3 Summary; 2.4 Summary and theoretical implications; 3: Evidentials and varieties of update; 3.1 A semantics for sentential mood: sentences without evidentials; 3.2 Declarative sentences with evidentials; 3.2.1 The direct evidential; 3.2.2 The reportative evidential; 3.2.3 The inferential evidential; 3.2.4 Conjunctions as sequential update; 3.3 Interrogative sentences with evidentials; 3.3.1 Polar interrogatives with evidentials; 3.3.2 Content interrogatives with evidentials; 3.4 Accounting for crosslinguistic patterns; 3.4.1 Challengeability and commitment.
  • 3.4.2 Embedding and projection3.4.3 Interaction with questions; 3.5 Summary; 4: Declarative sentences; 4.1 Framework: Update with Modal Centering; 4.2 Declarative mood; 4.3 Declaratives with evidentials; 4.3.1 The direct evidential; 4.3.2 The reportative evidential; 4.3.3 The inferential evidential; 4.4 Conjunction as sequential update; 4.5 Challengeability and commitment diagnostics; 4.6 Summary; 5: Interrogative sentences; 5.1 Interrogative mood; 5.2 Polar interrogatives with evidentials; 5.3 Content interrogatives with evidentials; 5.4 Summary; 6: Conclusion.

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