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The Grammar of Knowledge - A Cross-Linguistic Typology (Hardcover)
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The Grammar of Knowledge - A Cross-Linguistic Typology (Hardcover)
Series: Explorations in Linguistic Typology, 7
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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 in every sentence. In these languages,
it may not be possible to say merely that 'the man went fishing'.
Instead, the source of evidence for the statement must also be
specified, usually through the use of evidential markers. For
example, it may be necessary to indicate whether the speaker saw
the man go fishing; has simply assumed that the man went fishing;
or was told that he went fishing by a third party. Some languages,
such as Hinuq and Tatar, distinguish between first-hand and non
first-hand information sources; others, such as Ersu, mark three
distinct types of information - directly required, inferred or
assumed, and reported. Some require an even greater level of
specification: Asheninka Perene, from South America, has a specific
marker to express suspicions or misgivings. Like others in the
series, the book illustrates and examines these aspects of language
in different cultural and linguistic settings. It will interest
linguists of all persuasions as well as linguistically-minded
anthropologists.
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