The Semantics of Evidentials

by Sarah E. Murray

Book Overview

This book provides argues for a compositional, truth-conditional, crosslinguistic semantics for evidentiality, the linguistic encoding of the source of information on which a statement is based. Central to the proposed theory is the distinction between what propositional content is at-issue and what content is not-at-issue. Evidentials contribute not-at-issue content, and can affect the level of commitment a sentence makes to the main proposition,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199681570
• ISBN13: 9780199681570
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.7" x 9.8"