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ISBN-10 :  0191503795 

ISBN-13 :  9780191503795

Author:  Sarah E Murray 

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 authors own fieldwork, as well as from English and a variety of other languages.

Semantics of evidentials 1st Table of contents:

1: Introduction
2: A semantic classification of evidentials
2.1 Challengeability and commitment
2.1.1 Direct and indirect challengeability
2.1.2 Commitment to scope
2.1.3 Commitment to evidence
2.1.4 Summary
2.2 Embedding and projection
2.2.1 Negation
2.2.2 Tense and modality
2.2.3 Conditionals
2.2.4 Embedding verbs
2.2.5 Summary
2.3 Interaction with questions
2.3.1 Polar interrogatives
2.3.2 Content interrogatives
2.3.3 Summary
2.4 Summary and theoretical implications
3: Evidentials and varieties of update
3.1 A semantics for sentential mood: sentences without evidentials
3.2 Declarative sentences with evidentials
3.2.1 The direct evidential
3.2.2 The reportative evidential
3.2.3 The inferential evidential
3.2.4 Conjunctions as sequential update
3.3 Interrogative sentences with evidentials
3.3.1 Polar interrogatives with evidentials
3.3.2 Content interrogatives with evidentials
3.4 Accounting for crosslinguistic patterns
3.4.1 Challengeability and commitment
3.4.2 Embedding and projection
3.4.3 Interaction with questions
3.5 Summary
4: Declarative sentences
4.1 Framework: Update with Modal Centering
4.2 Declarative mood
4.3 Declaratives with evidentials
4.3.1 The direct evidential
4.3.2 The reportative evidential
4.3.3 The inferential evidential
4.4 Conjunction as sequential update
4.5 Challengeability and commitment diagnostics
4.6 Summary
5: Interrogative sentences
5.1 Interrogative mood
5.2 Polar interrogatives with evidentials
5.3 Content interrogatives with evidentials
5.4 Summary
6: Conclusion

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