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.
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.
List of Figures and Tables
Introduction: Perspectives and Issues Chungmin Lee and William McClure
Part 1 Theoretical and Typological Perspectives on Evidentiality
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Evidentiality and Information Source Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
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A Possible Worlds Semantics for Cuzco Quechua Evidentials Martina T. Faller
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A Matter of Taste Ezra Keshet
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Evidence Type, Evidence Location, Evidence Strength Lisa Matthewson
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Testimony, Trust, and Evidentials Elin McCready
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A Hamblin Semantics for Evidentials and Evidential Questions Sarah E. Murray
Part 2 Issues on Evidentiality from Korean
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Korean Evidentials and Epistemic Modals Kyung-Sook Chung
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Evidential Markers as Interactional Resources in Korean Conversation Mary Shin Kim
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The Nature of Evidentiality and Epistemic Modals: The Causal Event Structure Iksoo Kwon
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Evidentials: Nature, Interactions and Shiftability Chungmin Lee
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The Korean Pre-final Ending -te: A Historical Investigation Ji-Young Lee
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A Modal Account of ‘First Person’ Constraints on Evidential Sentences Jungmee Lee
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What Kind of (Doxastic) Alternatives Does the Korean Evidential -te Introduce (If It Does)? Dongsik Lim
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Evidential and/or Mirative Components of Some Verb Endings and Periphrastic Constructions in Korean Jinho Park
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Evidentiality in Korean Jaemog Song
Part 3 Evidentiality and Modality in Other Languages
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Processing Evidentiality in Bilingualism and Aphasia: An Overview of Some Recent Studies on Turkish Seçkin Arslan
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Evidentials in African Languages Robert Botne
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Breaking the Illusion of Modality: Reclassifying Japanese darou Marisa Nagano and William McClure
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Epistemic Modality in Southeastern Tepehuan Thomas Willett
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Modal Particles yo/ne in Japanese Kei Yoshimoto
Index
All interested in evidentiality (ecidential morphemic markers or constructions), modality or related linguistic concepts and phenomena, especially concerned with studying these linguistic topics on the basis of empirical linguistic data.