Evidentiality
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
In a number of languages, scattered across the world, every statement must contain a specification of the type of evidence on which it is based--whether the speaker saw it, or heard it, or inferred it from indirect evidence, or learnt it from somebody else. Of interest to any grammarian, the book discusses evidentiality, and the cognitive and sociolinguistic consequences of evidentiality in a language.
Κατηγορίες:
Έτος:
2005
Εκδότης:
Oxford University Press
Γλώσσα:
english
Σελίδες:
480
ISBN 10:
1435610016
ISBN 13:
9781435610019
Αρχείο:
PDF, 3.41 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2005