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Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y.

 
9789004466418: The Web of Knowledge: Evidentiality at the Cross-Roads
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 900446641X ISBN 13 : 9789004466418
Editeur : Brill, 2021

Synopsis

Knowledge can be expressed in language using a plethora of grammatical means. Four major groups of meanings related to knowledge are Evidentiality: grammatical expression of information source; Egophoricity: grammatical expression of access to knowledge; Mirativity: grammatical expression of expectation of knowledge; and Epistemic modality: grammatical expression of attitude to knowledge. The four groups of categories interact. Some develop overtones of the others. Evidentials stand apart from other means in many ways, including their correlations with speech genres and social environment. This essay presents a framework which connects the expression of knowledge across the world's languages in a coherent way, showing their dependencies and complexities, and pathways of historical development in various scenarios, including language obsolescence.

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À propos de l'auteur

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald is Distinguished Professor, Australian Laureate Fellow and Director of the Language and Culture Research Centre at James Cook University. She has published grammars of languages from Amazonia and Papua New Guinea, monographs on Amazonian languages, plus several monographs on topics in linguistic typology.

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Éditeur
Brill
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
900446641X
ISBN 13 
9789004466418
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
156
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