Studies in Evidentiality
Editors
In a number of languages, the speaker must specify the evidence for every statement whether seen, or heard, or inferred from indirect evidence, or learnt from someone else. This grammatical category, referring to information source, is called ‘evidentiality’. Evidentiality systems differ in how complex they are: some distinguish just two terms (eyewitness and noneyewitness, or reported and non-reported), while others have six (or even more) terms. Evidentiality is a category in its own right, and not a subtype of epistemic or some other modality, or of tense-aspect. The introductory chapter sets out cross-linguistic parameters for studying evidentiality. It is followed by twelve chapters which deal with typologically different languages from various parts of the world: Shipibo-Conibo, Jarawara, Tariana and Myky from South America; West Greenlandic Eskimo; Western Apache and Eastern Pomo from North America; Qiang (Tibeto-Burman); Yukaghir (Siberian isolate); Turkic languages; languages of the Balkans; and Abkhaz (Northwest Caucasian). The final chapter summarises some of the recurrent patterns.
[Typological Studies in Language, 54] 2003. xiv, 349 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Contributors | p. vii
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Preface | p. ix
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Abbreviations | p. xi
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1. Evidentiality in typological perspectiveAlexandra Y. Aikhenvald | pp. 1–31
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2. Evidentiality in Shipibo-Konibo, with a comparative overview of the category in PanoanPilar M. Valenzuela | pp. 33–61
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3. Evidentiality in QiangRandy J. LaPolla | pp. 63–78
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4. Evidentiality in Western Apache (Athabaskan)Willem J. de Reuse | pp. 79–100
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5. Evidentials in Eastern Pomo with a comparative survey of the category in other Pomoan languagesSally McLendon | pp. 101–129
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6. Evidentiality in TarianaAlexandra Y. Aikhenvald | pp. 131–164
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7. Evidentiality in JarawaraR.M.W. Dixon | pp. 165–187
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8. Evidentiality in the Balkans with special attention to Macedonian and AlbanianVictor A. Friedman | pp. 189–218
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9. Evidentiality in YukaghirElena S. Maslova | pp. 219–235
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10. Evidentiality in MỹkyRuth Monserrat and R.M.W. Dixon | pp. 237–241
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11. Evidential category and evidential strategy in AbkhazViacheslav Chirikba | pp. 243–272
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12. Evidentiality in TurkicLars Johanson | pp. 273–290
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13. Evidentiality in West Greenlandic: A case of scattered codingMichael Fortescue | pp. 291–306
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14. EvidentialsBrian D. Joseph | pp. 307–327
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Index of authors | pp. 329–332
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Index of languages and language families | pp. 333–340
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Index of subjects | pp. 341–347
“This book is a major publication in the rapidly expanding field of evidentiality studies. It will join the sequence of books like Chafe and Nichols (1986), Guentcheva (1996), and Johanson, L. and Utas, B. (2000) as an essential resource for linguists interested in evidentiality studies, and should certainly find itself on the shelves of university libraries. Its new contribution is that it attempts to introduce a typological framework within which the data from various languages can be fit. The individual chapters are rich in data and
language-specific interpretive analysis. It is recommended without reservation.”
language-specific interpretive analysis. It is recommended without reservation.”
Elena Bashir, The University of Chicago on Linguist List: Vol-14-1664, 2003.
“Much can be learned from this volume about how and why languages grammaticalize evidentiality.”
Augustinus Gianto, Pontifical Biblical Institute Rome, in Language 80(4)
“The volume is a welcome contribution to the study of evidentiality, and it offers many new and important insights. Its wealth of information is made readily accessible both by the introduction (Chapter 1) and a very detailed index that follows the laudable tradition of the series.”
Winfried Boeder, University of Oldenburg, in Studies in Language 31(2), 2007
“The main value of the volume is that it enriches our knowledge of the means of coding the speaker's attitude toward the information provided, be it with respect to the sources of knowledge or to the reality of the event. Given the fact that the present volume contains mostly studies of different languages, it constitutes a most useful companion for scholars studying speakers' attitudes toward the sources of their knowledge and toward the propositions they produce.”
Zygmunt Frajzyngier, University of Colorado, in Journal of Linguistics 41, 2005
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