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Catching the Elusive: Lexical evidentiality markers in Slavic languages (A questionnaire study and its background)

Catching the Elusive: Lexical evidentiality markers in Slavic languages (A questionnaire study and its background)

Wiemer, Björn

Paperback

Series: Slavolinguistica, Book 23

Foreign Language GeneralLinguistics

ISBN10: 3631756674
ISBN13: 9783631756676
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: Aug 20 2018
Pages: 446
Weight: 1.17
Height: 0.91 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: German

Evidentiality deals with the marking of information source, that is with means that specify how we come to know what we (think to) know. For instance, such means indicate whether knowledge derives from hearsay, or whether an inference has been based on perception or on knowledge about habits. Often these indications are vague. This book focuses on sentence adverbs and so-called function words in Slavic languages. Six of them were subject of a questionnaire survey, whose discussion, preceded by general methodological background, occupies the second part of this book. The first half contains a thorough consideration of notional links between evidentiality and related domains, first of all of epistemic modality, and it discusses the intricacies of doing lexicography of evidential marking.

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