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Author:   Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (Professor and Associate Director, La Trobe University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.70cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.688kg
ISBN:  

9780199204335

ISBN 10:   0199204330
Pages:   480
Publication Date:   01 June 2006
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Preliminaries and Key Concepts 2: Evidentials Worldwide 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 Index

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...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 The most important current resource for anyone interested in the nature and typology of evidentials. Margaret Speas, University of Massachusetts

...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

Author Information

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald is Professor 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 has published, in Russian, a grammar of Modern Hebrew (1990). She is a major authority on languages of the Arawak family, from northern Amazonia, and has written grammars of Bare (1995, based on work with the last speaker who has since died) and Warekena (1998), plus A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia (Cambridge University Press 2003), in addition to essays on various typological and areal features of South American languages. Her books, Classifiers: a typology of noun categorization devices (2000, paperback reissue 2003), and Language Contact in Amazonia (2002) were published by Oxford University Press. She is currently working on a reference grammar of Manambu, from the Sepik area of New Guinea.

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