Full Description
This book offers an in-depth account of the meaning of grammatical elements representing evidentiality in connection to modality, focusing on theoretical/formal perspectives by eminent pioneers in the field and on recently discovered phenomena in Korean evidential markers by native scholars in particular. Evidentiality became a hot topic in semantics and pragmatics, trying to see what kind of evidential justification is provided by evidentials to support or be related to the 'at-issue' prejacent propositions. This book aims to provide a deeper understanding of such evidentiality in discourse contexts in a broad range of languages such as American Indian, Korean and Japanese, Turkish and African languages over the world. In addition, an introduction to the concept of evidentiality and theoretical perspectives and recent issues is also provided.
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Introduction: Perspectives and Issues
Chungmin Lee and William McClure
Part 1 Theoretical and Typological Perspectives on Evidentiality
1 Evidentiality and Information Source
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
2 A Possible Worlds Semantics for Cuzco Quechua Evidentials
Martina T. Faller
3 A Matter of Taste
Ezra Keshet
4 Evidence Type, Evidence Location, Evidence Strength
Lisa Matthewson
5 Testimony, Trust, and Evidentials
Elin McCready
6 A Hamblin Semantics for Evidentials and Evidential Questions
Sarah E. Murray
Part 2 Issues on Evidentiality from Korean
7 Korean Evidentials and Epistemic Modals
Kyung-Sook Chung
8 Evidential Markers as Interactional Resources in Korean Conversation
Mary Shin Kim
9 The Nature of Evidentiality and Epistemic Modals: The Causal Event Structure
Iksoo Kwon
10 Evidentials: Nature, Interactions and Shiftability
Chungmin Lee
11 The Korean Pre-final Ending -te: A Historical Investigation
Ji-Young Lee
12 A Modal Account of 'First Person' Constraints on Evidential Sentences
Jungmee Lee
13 What Kind of (Doxastic) Alternatives Does the Korean Evidential -te Introduce (If It Does)?
Dongsik Lim
14 Evidential and/or Mirative Components of Some Verb Endings and Periphrastic Constructions in Korean
Jinho Park
15 Evidentiality in Korean
Jaemog Song
Part 3 Evidentiality and Modality in Other Languages
16 Processing Evidentiality in Bilingualism and Aphasia: An Overview of Some Recent Studies on Turkish
Seçkin Arslan
17 Evidentials in African Languages
Robert Botne
18 Breaking the Illusion of Modality: Reclassifying Japanese darou
Marisa Nagano and William McClure
19 Epistemic Modality in Southeastern Tepehuan
Thomas Willett
20 Modal Particles yo/ne in Japanese
Kei Yoshimoto
Index
