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Semantics Of Evidentials Hardback
Sarah E. Murray
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Hardback. This book provides a compositional, truth-conditional, crosslinguistic semantics for evidentiality, the linguistic encoding of the source information on which a statement is based. The new proposal is based on extensive data from Cheyenne, English, and a variety of other languages. Series: Oxford Studies in Semantics and Pragmatics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: CFGA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 246 x 171. .
This book provides a compositional, truth-conditional, crosslinguistic semantics for evidentiality, the linguistic encoding of the source of information on which a statement is based. Central to the proposed theory is the distinction between what propositional content is at-issue and what content is not-at-issue. Evidentials contribute not-at-issue content, and can affect the level of commitment a sentence makes to the main proposition, contributed by sentential mood. In this volume, Sarah Murray builds on recent work in the formal semantics of evidentials and related phenomena, and proposes a semantics that does not appeal to separate dimensions of illocutionary meaning. Instead, she argues ... Read more
This book provides a compositional, truth-conditional, crosslinguistic semantics for evidentiality, the linguistic encoding of the source of information on which a statement is based. Central to the proposed theory is the distinction between what propositional content is at-issue and what content is not-at-issue. Evidentials contribute not-at-issue content, and can affect the level of commitment a sentence makes to the main proposition, contributed by sentential mood. In this volume, Sarah Murray builds on recent work in the formal semantics of evidentials and related phenomena, and proposes a semantics that does not appeal to separate dimensions of illocutionary meaning. Instead, she argues ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Series
Oxford Studies in Semantics and Pragmatics
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199681570
SKU
V9780199681570
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About Sarah E. Murray
Sarah E. Murray obtained her PhD from Rutgers University in 2010, and is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Cornell University. Her main research interests are the semantics and pragmatics of natural language, and she works extensively on Cheyenne, a Plains Algonquian language spoken in Montana and Oklahoma. Her work has been published in journals such as ... Read more
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