世界言語における証拠性<br>Evidentiality

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世界言語における証拠性
Evidentiality

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  • 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版/ページ数 480 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780199204335
  • DDC分類 401.43

基本説明

話者が話題とする事象をどう知り得たか(目撃・伝聞など)を示す表現、また対応する文法を有する言語を徹底調査した認知類型論・人類学に貴重な研究。
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2004. This book provides the first exhaustive cross-linguistic typological study of how languages deal with the marking of information source. Examples are drawn from over 500 languages from all over the world.

Full Description

"Highly recommended.... extremely useful." Linguist List

In some languages, every statement must contain a specification of the type of evidence on which it is based: for example, whether the speaker saw it, heard it, inferred it from indirect evidence, or learnt it from someone else. This grammatical reference to information source is called 'evidentiality', and is one of the least described grammatical categories. Evidentiality systems differ in how complex they are: some distinguish just two terms (eyewitness and non-eyewitness, or reported and everything else), while others have six or even more terms. Evidentiality is a category in its own right, and not a subcategory of epistemic or some other modality, nor of tense-aspect.

Every language has some way of referring to the source of information, but not every language has grammatical evidentiality. In English expressions such as 'I guess', 'they say', 'I hear that', and 'the alleged' are not obligatory and do not constitute a grammatical system. Similar expressions in other languages may provide historical sources for evidentials. True evidentials, by contrast, form a grammatical system. In the North Arawak language Tariana, an expression such as 'the dog bit the man' must be augmented by a grammatical suffix indicating whether the event was seen, heard, assumed, or reported.

This book provides the first exhaustive cross-linguistic typological study of how languages deal with the marking of information source. Examples are drawn from more than 500 languages from all over the world, several of them based on the author's original fieldwork. Professor Aikhenvald also considers the role evidentiality plays in human cognition, and the ways in which evidentiality influences human perception of the world. This is an important book on an intriguing subject. It will interest anthropologists, cognitive psychologists and philosophers, as well as linguists.

Contents

1. Preliminaries and Key Concepts ; 2. Evidentials Worldwide ; 3. How to Mark Information Source ; 4. Evidential Extensions of Non-evidential Categories ; 5. Evidentials and Their Meanings ; 6. Evidentiality and Mirativity ; 7. Whose Evidence is That? Evidentials and Person ; 8. Evidentials and Other Grammatical Categories ; 9. Evidentials: Where do They Come From? ; 10. How to Choose the Correct Evidential: Evidentiality in Discourse and in Lexicon ; 11. What are Evidentials Good for? Evidentiality, Cognition and Cultural Knowledge ; 12. What can we Conclude; Summary and Prospects ; Fieldworker's Guide. How to Gather Materials on Evidentiality Systems ; Glossary of Terms ; References ; Index of Languages ; Index of Authors ; Subject Index