Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality

Conceptual and Descriptive Issues

• Author(s): Marta Carretero, Juana I. Marin-Arrese, Elena Domínguez Romero, Victoria Martín de la Rosa,
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Pages: 414
• ISBN_10: 3034339933
  ISBN_13: 9783034339933
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Education / Bilingual Education , Foreign Language Study / English as a Second Language , Foreign Language Study / German , Foreign Language Study / Latin , Foreign Language Study / Miscellaneous , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Study & Teaching , Language Arts & Disciplines / Spelling & Vocabulary , Philosophy / General , Philosophy / Epistemology , Philosophy / Methodology , Philosophy / History & Surveys / Modern ,

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Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality: Conceptual and Descriptive Issues presents ground-breaking research on the domains of evidentiality and epistemic modality. The book includes papers on key theoretical issues (the nature of evidential inference and the challengeability criterion for evidentiality), and descriptive studies covering various European languages (English, Spanish, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Romanian, Catalan and Latvian), based on general corpora or specific discourse types. The prominent corpus-based contrastive methodology uncovers a wide range of idiosyncratic discourse-pragmatic features of diverse languages, discourses and genres. The contributions are representative of the work on evidentiality and epistemic modality in a substantial number of countries.