Studies in Evidentiality

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Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald | Research Centre for Linguistic Typology, La Trobe University

R.M.W. Dixon | Research Centre for Linguistic Typology, La Trobe University

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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

https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.54

Table of Contents

Contributors | p. vii

Preface | p. ix

Abbreviations | p. xi

1. Evidentiality in typological perspective

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald | pp. 1–31

2. Evidentiality in Shipibo-Konibo, with a comparative overview of the category in Panoan

Pilar M. Valenzuela | pp. 33–61

3. Evidentiality in Qiang

Randy J. LaPolla | pp. 63–78

4. Evidentiality in Western Apache (Athabaskan)

Willem J. de Reuse | pp. 79–100

5. Evidentials in Eastern Pomo with a comparative survey of the category in other Pomoan languages

Sally McLendon | pp. 101–129

6. Evidentiality in Tariana

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald | pp. 131–164

7. Evidentiality in Jarawara

R.M.W. Dixon | pp. 165–187

8. Evidentiality in the Balkans with special attention to Macedonian and Albanian

Victor A. Friedman | pp. 189–218

9. Evidentiality in Yukaghir

Elena S. Maslova | pp. 219–235

10. Evidentiality in Mỹky

Ruth Monserrat and R.M.W. Dixon | pp. 237–241

11. Evidential category and evidential strategy in Abkhaz

Viacheslav Chirikba | pp. 243–272

12. Evidentiality in Turkic

Lars Johanson | pp. 273–290

13. Evidentiality in West Greenlandic: A case of scattered coding

Michael Fortescue | pp. 291–306

14. Evidentials

Brian D. Joseph | pp. 307–327

Index of authors | pp. 329–332

Index of languages and language families | pp. 333–340

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.”

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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