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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (Professor and Associate Director, La Trobe University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.50cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 24.20cm Weight: 0.856kg ISBN: 9780199263882ISBN 10: 0199263884 Pages: 480 Publication Date: 04 November 2004 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents1: Preliminaries and Key Concepts 2: Evidentials World-wide 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 IndexReviews...well written and well structured Johan Van Der Auwera, Language vol. 84, No.1, 2008 ...provides an excellent state of the art and a most interesting basis for further investigation Johan Van Der Auwera, Language vol. 84, No.1, 2008 ...is essential for anyone who wishes to study evidentiality in depth and crosslinguistically. It is hereby highly recommended Johan Van Der Auwera,Language vol. 84, No.1, 2008 ...marks a major advance in the study of evidentiality ... Aikenvald has opened the floor for discussion, and everyone with an interest in this area can only appreciate this. Heiko Narrog, SKY journal of Linguistics ...a truly superb example of a cross-linguistic survey of a grammatical category... This book belongs in every linguistics library. Edward J Vajda, Western Washington University ...an impressive typological survey of evidentiality systems in the world's languages... With its numerous carefully glossed example sentences and its various summarizing tables, Aikhenvald's book opens up a fascinating aspect of natural language grammar to future systematic enquiry. The Year's Works in English Studies ...marks a major advance in the study of evidentiality ... Aikenvald has opened the floor for discussion, and everyone with an interest in this area can only appreciate this. Heiko Narrog, SKY journal of Linguistics ...a truly superb example of a cross-linguistic survey of a grammatical category... This book belongs in every linguistics library. Edward J Vajda, Western Washington University ...an impressive typological survey of evidentiality systems in the world's languages... With its numerous carefully glossed example sentences and its various summarizing tables, Aikhenvald's book opens up a fascinating aspect of natural language grammar to future systematic enquiry. The Year's Works in English Studies Author InformationAlexandra Aikhenvald is Professor of Linguistics and Associate Director of the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology at La Trobe University. She has worked on descriptive and historical aspects of Berber languages and in 1990 published, in Russian, a grammar of Modern Hebrew. She is a major authority on languages of the Arawak family o fnorthern Amazonia, and has written grammars of Bare (1995, based on work with the last speaker who has since died), Warekena (1998), and Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia (2003). Her books inlcude Classifiers: a Typology of Noun Categorization Devices (2000, paperback reissue 2003), and Language Contact in Amazonia (2002). She is currently working on a grammatical description of Manambu, from the Sepik region of New Guinea. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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