28.2268, Books: The Semantics of Evidentials: Murray

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Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 13:45:51
From: Celine Aenlle-Rocha [Celine.Aenlle-Rocha at oup.com]
Subject: The Semantics of Evidentials: Murray

 


Title: The Semantics of Evidentials 
Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-semantics-of-evidentials-9780199681570 


Author: Sarah E. Murray

Hardback: ISBN:  9780199681570 Pages: 192 Price: U.S. $ 90.00
Paperback: ISBN:  9780199681587 Pages: 192 Price: U.S. $ 39.95


Abstract:

This book provides argues for a compositional, truth-conditional,
crosslinguistic semantics for evidentiality, the linguistic encoding of the
source of information on which a statement is based. Central to the proposed
theory is the distinction between what propositional content is at-issue and
what content is not-at-issue. Evidentials contribute not-at-issue content, and
can affect the level of commitment a sentence makes to the main proposition,
which is contributed by sentential mood. In this volume, Sarah Murray builds
on recent work in the formal semantics of evidentials and related phenomena,
and proposes a semantics that does not appeal to separate dimensions of
illocutionary meaning. Instead, she argues that all sentences make three
semantic contributions: at-issue content, not-at-issue content, and an
illocutionary relation. At-issue content is presented and made available for
subsequent anaphora, but is not directly added to the common ground;
not-at-issue content directly updates the common ground; and the illocutionary
relation uses a proposition to impose structure on the common ground, which,
depending on the clause type, can trigger further updates. The analysis is
supported by extensive empirical data from Cheyenne, drawn from the author's
own fieldwork, as well as from English and a variety of other languages.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                     Pragmatics
                     Semantics
                     Syntax
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): Cheyenne (chy)
                     English (eng)


Written In: English  (eng)

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