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The Web of Knowledge
Evidentiality at the Cross-Roads
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Knowledge can be expressed in language using a plethora of grammatical means. Four major groups of meanings related to knowledge are Evidentiality: grammatical expression of information source; Egophoricity: grammatical expression of access to knowledge; Mirativity: grammatical expression of expectation of knowledge; and Epistemic modality: grammatical expression of attitude to knowledge. The four groups of categories interact. Some develop overtones of the others. Evidentials stand apart from other means in many ways, including their correlations with speech genres and social environment. This essay presents a framework which connects the expression of knowledge across the world's languages in a coherent way, showing their dependencies and complexities, and pathways of historical development in various scenarios, including language obsolescence.
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald is Distinguished Professor, Australian Laureate Fellow and Director of the Language and Culture Research Centre at James Cook University. She has published grammars of languages from Amazonia and Papua New Guinea, monographs on Amazonian languages, plus several monographs on topics in linguistic typology.
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
List of Tables and Illustrations
Abstract
Keywords
Introduction
1 Knowledge through Grammar: A Preamble
2 Links between the Four Groups of Grammatical Categories Related to Knowledge
3 How Evidentials Are Special
4 Access to Information and Information Source: Evidentiality Meets Egophoricity
5 Unequal Relations between Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality
6 Dependencies between Evidentiality and Other Grammatical Categories
7 What Can We Conclude?
Appendix: Knowledge through Grammar: Further Categories, Further Options
Commentary
Books by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Index
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
List of Tables and Illustrations
Abstract
Keywords
Introduction
1 Knowledge through Grammar: A Preamble
2 Links between the Four Groups of Grammatical Categories Related to Knowledge
3 How Evidentials Are Special
4 Access to Information and Information Source: Evidentiality Meets Egophoricity
5 Unequal Relations between Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality
6 Dependencies between Evidentiality and Other Grammatical Categories
7 What Can We Conclude?
Appendix: Knowledge through Grammar: Further Categories, Further Options
Commentary
Books by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Index
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