The Semantics of Evidentials

Autor

Sarah E. Murray

Editura

Oxford University Press

An publicare

2017

Nr. Pagini

192

ISBN

9780199681587

Categorii

Lingvistica Stiinte Limba Contemporana

Descriere

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.