Evidentials and Modals

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-42359-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 39, 546 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1055 g

Reihe: Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface

This book offers an in-depth account of the meaning of grammatical elements representing evidentiality in connection to modality, focusing on theoretical/formal perspectives by eminent pioneers in the field and on recently discovered phenomena in Korean evidential markers by native scholars in particular. Evidentiality became a hot topic in semantics and pragmatics, trying to see what kind of evidential justification is provided by evidentials to support or be related to the ‘at-issue’ prejacent propositions. This book aims to provide a deeper understanding of such evidentiality in discourse contexts in a broad range of languages such as American Indian, Korean and Japanese, Turkish and African languages over the world. In addition, an introduction to the concept of evidentiality and theoretical perspectives and recent issues is also provided.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Lee, Chungmin

Park, Jinho

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables

Introduction: Perspectives and Issues

Chungmin Lee and William McClure

Part 1 Theoretical and Typological Perspectives on Evidentiality

1 Evidentiality and Information Source

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

2 A Possible Worlds Semantics for Cuzco Quechua Evidentials

Martina T. Faller

3 A Matter of Taste

Ezra Keshet

4 Evidence Type, Evidence Location, Evidence Strength

Lisa Matthewson

5 Testimony, Trust, and Evidentials

Elin McCready

6 A Hamblin Semantics for Evidentials and Evidential Questions

Sarah E. Murray

Part 2 Issues on Evidentiality from Korean

7 Korean Evidentials and Epistemic Modals

Kyung-Sook Chung

8 Evidential Markers as Interactional Resources in Korean Conversation

Mary Shin Kim

9 The Nature of Evidentiality and Epistemic Modals: The Causal Event Structure

Iksoo Kwon

10 Evidentials: Nature, Interactions and Shiftability

Chungmin Lee

11 The Korean Pre-final Ending -te: A Historical Investigation

Ji-Young Lee

12 A Modal Account of ‘First Person’ Constraints on Evidential Sentences

Jungmee Lee

13 What Kind of (Doxastic) Alternatives Does the Korean Evidential -te Introduce (If It Does)?

Dongsik Lim

14 Evidential and/or Mirative Components of Some Verb Endings and Periphrastic Constructions in Korean

Jinho Park

15 Evidentiality in Korean

Jaemog Song

Part 3 Evidentiality and Modality in Other Languages

16 Processing Evidentiality in Bilingualism and Aphasia: An Overview of Some Recent Studies on Turkish

Seçkin Arslan

17 Evidentials in African Languages

Robert Botne

18 Breaking the Illusion of Modality: Reclassifying Japanese darou

Marisa Nagano and William McClure

19 Epistemic Modality in Southeastern Tepehuan

Thomas Willett

20 Modal Particles yo/ne in Japanese

Kei Yoshimoto

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Chungmin Lee, Ph.D. (1973), Indiana University and Seoul National University, is a Professor Emeritus of Linguistics (and Cognitive Science) at that university and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, ROK. He has published papers on semantics, Korean and English Semantics on presupposition, negative imperative, negative polarity, and information structure in journals like Language, Foundations of Language, Linguistic Inquiry. He has been on editorial boards of Linguistics and Philosophy and several other journals. He edited Topic and Focus with Buring and Gordon (Springer, 2006) and is editor of Springer's series Language, Cognition, and Mind (LCAM).

Jinho Park, Ph.D. (2003), Seoul National University, is Professor of Korean Linguistics at that university. His research interests include linguistic typology, syntax and semantics of Asian languages, corpus linguistics and natural language processing.