Epistemic Modalities and Evidentiality in Cross-Linguistic Perspective

Epistemic Modalities and Evidentiality in Cross-Linguistic Perspective / edited by Zlatka Guentchéva.

This collective book examines epistemic modalities and evidentiality in a wide range of Indo-European and non Indo-European languages. It reflects both the diversity of current research and different linguistic traditions. The contributions, written by specialists in the fields covered, are broadly...

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Other Authors: Guentchéva, Zlatka (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2018]
Series:Empirical approaches to language typology ; 59.
Subjects:
Modality (Linguistics)
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Miscellaneous.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Semantics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Reference.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Editorial Preface / Guentchéva, Zlatka
  • List of Contributors
  • Part I: Germanic languages
  • Epistemic modality, Danish modal verbs and the tripartition of utterances / Herslund, Michael
  • Epistemic evaluation in factual contexts in English / Celle, Agnès
  • SHOULD in Conditional Clauses: When Epistemicity Meets Appreciative Modality / Dufaye, Lionel
  • Part II: Romance languages
  • Epistemic modality and evidentiality in Romance: the Reportive Conditional / Kronning, Hans
  • Epistemic modality and perfect morphology in Spanish and French / Laca, Brenda
  • Anchoring evidential, epistemic and beyond in discourse: alào, vantér and vér in Noirmoutier island (Poitevin-Saintongeais) / Léonard, Jean Léo
  • A prosody account of (inter)subjective modal adverbs in Spanish / Nebot, Adrián Cabedo / Cornillie, Bert
  • French expressions of personal opinion: je crois / pense / trouve / estime / considère que p / Gosselin, Laurent
  • Mirative extensions in Romance: evidential or epistemic? / Squartini, Mario
  • The Italian epistemic future and Russian epistemic markers as linguistic manifestations of conjectural conclusion: a comparative analysis / Bonola, Anna
  • Epistemic modality, evidentiality, quotativity and echoic use / Holvoet, Axel
  • Evidentiality, epistemic modality and negation in Lithuanian: revisited / Petit, Daniel
  • Part IV: Non Indo-European languages
  • Two kinds of epistemic modality in Hungarian / Kiefer, Ferenc
  • Epistemic modalities in spoken Tibetan / Vokurková, Zuzana
  • Intersubjectification revisited: a cross-categorical perspective / Bergqvist, Henrik
  • Inference crisscross: Disentangling evidence, stance and (inter)subjectivity in Yucatec Maya / Vapnarsky, Valentina
  • Part V: Theoretical perspectives
  • Epistemic modality and evidentiality from an enunciative perspective / Desclés, Jean-Pierre
  • About Contributors
  • Author Index
  • Subject Index
  • Language Index.

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