The Semantics of Evidentials

The Semantics of Evidentials
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 191
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ISBN-10 : 9780199681570
ISBN-13 : 0199681570
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Book Synopsis The Semantics of Evidentials by : Sarah E. Murray

Download or read book The Semantics of Evidentials written by Sarah E. Murray and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work 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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In some languages every statement must contain a specification of the type of evidence on which it is based: for example, whether the speaker saw it, or heard i