Wiemer / Marin-Arrese Evidential Marking in European Languages

Toward a Unitary Comparative Account
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-11-072611-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 27, 749 Seiten

Reihe: Studia Typologica [STTYP]ISSN

How are evidential functions distinguished by means other than grammatical paradigms, i.e. by function words and other lexical units? And how inventories of such means can be compared across languages (against an account also of grammatical means used to mark information source)? This book presents an attempt at supplying a comparative survey of such inventories by giving detailed “evidential profiles” for a large part of European languages: Continental Germanic, English, French, Basque, Russian, Polish, Lithuanian, Modern Greek, and Ibero-Romance languages, such as Catalán, Galician, Portuguese and Spanish. Each language is treated in a separate chapter, and their profiles are based on a largely unified set of concepts based on function and/or etymological provenance. The profiles are preceded by a chapter which clarifies the theoretical premises and methodological background for the format followed in the profiles. The concluding chapter presents a synthesis of findings from these profiles, including areal biases and the formulation of methodological problems that call for further research.

Zielgruppe

Researchers and Scholars of General Linguistics, Typological and

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wiemer, Björn

Marin-Arrese, Juana I.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Über Autor(innen)

Björn Wiemer, Johannes-Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany; Juana I. Marín-Arrese, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.