Alexandra Y Aikhenvald

Broschiertes Buch

The Web of Knowledge

Evidentiality at the Cross-Roads

Beschreibung

This essay relates together, in a clear and concise manner, four major groups of grammatical meanings -- evidentiality for information source, egophopricity for access to knowledge, mirativity for expectation of knowledge, and epistemic modality for attitude to knowledge.

Autor

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald is Distinguished Professor, Australian Laureate Fellow and Director of the Language and Culture Research Centre at James Cook University. She has published grammars of languages from Amazonia and Papua New Guinea, monographs on Amazonian languages, plus several monographs on topics in linguistic typology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 156
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 275g
• ISBN-13: 9789004466418
• ISBN-10: 900446641X
• Artikelnr.: 62070435