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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.
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Linguistic realization of evidentiality in European languages, Gabriele Diewald
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- 2010
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- Title
- Linguistic realization of evidentiality in European languages
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Gabriele Diewald
- Publisher
- De Gruyter Mouton
- Released
- 2010
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN10
- 3110223961
- ISBN13
- 9783110223965
- Category
- University and college textbooks
- Description
- 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.