Grammar of Knowledge: A Cross-Linguistic Typology

by R.M.W. Dixon

Book Overview

The Grammar of Knowledge offers both a linguistic and anthropological perspective on the expression of information sources, as well as inferences, assumptions, probability and possibility, and gradations of doubt and beliefs in a range of languages. The book investigates twelve different languages, from families including Tibeto-Burman, Nakh-Dagestani, and Austronesian, all of which share the property of requiring the source of information to be specified...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198701314
• ISBN13: 9780198701316
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.2"