Linguistic Realization of Evidentiality in European Languages

This book presents a selection of contributions to the workshop "Linguistic realization of evidentiality in European languages", held at the 30th Annual Convention of the German Society of Linguistics in Bamberg (February 27-29, 2008), and additional papers, which have been especially commissioned for this volume. Its main focus lies on providing further empirical evidence about languages that have various - lexical as well as grammatical - evidential expressions.

The papers in this volume will offer a cross-linguistic perspective on this topic as they deal with a number of different language families and languages: Romance languages (French, Spanish, Italian), Germanic languages (Dutch, German, English, Icelandic), Baltic and Slavic languages, Greek, Basque, and Turkish.

1; Table of contents; 6
2; Introduction. Evidentiality in European languages: the lexicalgrammatical distinction; 8
3; Types of verbal evidentiality marking:an overview; 22
4; Hearsay in European languages: toward an integrative account of grammatical and lexical marking; 66
5; Information source in Spanish and Basque: a parallel corpus study; 138
6; Embedded evidentials in German; 164
7; Embedding indirective (evidential) utterances in Turkish; 194
8; Epistemic modality and evidentiality and their determination on a deictic basis: the case of Romance languages; 230
9; Evidentiality, polysemy, and the verbs of perception in English and German; 256
10; Evidential markers in French scientific writing: the case of the French verb voir; 286
11; An interactional approach to epistemic and evidential adverbs in Spanish conversation; 316
12; Revelative evidentiality in European languages: linguistic marking and its anthropological background; 338
13; Subject index; 376