Sarah E Murray

The Semantics of Evidentials

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 170mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780199681570
• ISBN-10: 0199681570
• Artikelnr.: 48065088

Autorenporträt

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 Semantics and Pragmatics and International Journal of American Linguistics, as well as in edited volumes including OUP's Methodologies in Semantic Fieldwork (eds Ryan M. Bochnak and Lisa Matthewson, 2015).

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
2: A semantic classification of evidentials
3: Evidentials and varieties of update
4: Declarative sentences
5: Interrogative sentences
6: Conclusion
Appendix A: Definitions and worked examples
Appendix B: Semantic contributions by phenomenon