21.3520, Books: Discourse Analysis/Historical Linguistics: Diewald, Smirnova

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Date: 03-Sep-2010
From: Julia Ulrich < julia.ulrich at degruyter.com >
Subject: Evidentiality in German: Diewald, Smirnova

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Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:22:37
From: Julia Ulrich [julia.ulrich at degruyter.com]
Subject: Evidentiality in German: Diewald, Smirnova

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Title: Evidentiality in German 
Subtitle: Linguistic Realization and Regularities in Grammaticalization 
Series Title: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 228  

Publication Year: 2010 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   http://www.degruyter.com/mouton

Book URL: http://www.degruyter.de/cont/fb/sk/detailEn.cfm?id=IS-9783110240696-1 

Author: Gabriele Diewald
Author: Elena Smirnova

Electronic: ISBN:  9783110241037 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 99.95
Hardback: ISBN:  9783110240696 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 99.95

Abstract:

This book is a comprehensive study of the evidential system in German. It
presents a systematic description of the encoding of evidentiality in
present-day German, as well as a diachronic reconstruction of the relevant
sources and paths of grammaticalization from the Old High German period
onwards.

Based on empirical corpus research, the study investigates the degree of
grammaticalization of each single evidential construction and the make-up
of the present-day system as well as the diachronic stages that lead to the
present state. The book focuses on three main issues. First, it is
concerned with the general notion of evidentiality, its deictic character,
and with the interrelations between the domains of evidentiality and
epistemic modality. Second, the book presents the results of the synchronic
corpus-based analysis of the German evidential periphrastic constructions
"werden" 'become' + infinitive, "scheinen" 'seem', "drohen" 'threaten',
"versprechen" 'promise' + zu 'to'- infinitive, which constitute a paradigm
for coding evidentiality in Present Day German. Third, the diachronic
development of the evidential constructions is represented as a complex
grammaticalization process, interacting with the development of modal
constructions and leading to a highly differentiated category of modal and
evidential distinctions in the grammar of German. 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Discourse Analysis
                     Grammaticalization
                     Historical Linguistics

Subject Language(s): German, Standard (deu)

Written In: English  (eng)

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