{"product_id":"the-oxford-handbook-of-evidentiality-9780198901013","title":"The Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality","description":"\u003cem\u003eThe Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality\u003c\/em\u003e offers a thorough, systematic, and crosslinguistic account of evidentiality, the linguistic encoding of the source of information on which a statement is based. In some languages, the speaker always has to specify this source - for example whether they saw the event, heard it, inferred it based on visual evidence or common sense, or was told about it by someone else. While not all languages have obligatory marking of this type, every language has ways of referring to information source and associated epistemological meanings. The continuum of epistemological expressions covers a range of devices from the lexical means in familiar European languages and in many languages of Aboriginal Australia to the highly grammaticalized systems in Amazonia or North America. In this handbook, experts from a variety of fields explore topics such as the relationship between evidentials and epistemic modality, contact-induced changes in evidential systems, the acquisition of evidentials, and formal semantic theories of evidentiality. \u003cem\u003eThe Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality\u003c\/em\u003e also contains detailed case studies of evidentiality in language families across the world, including Algonquian, Korean, Nakh-Dagestanian, Nambikwara, Turkic, Uralic, and Uto-Aztecan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alexandra Aikhenvald\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/08\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 920\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.50h x 6.70w x 2.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198901013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlexandra Aikhenvald, \u003cem\u003eLaureate Fellow and Professor at the Jawun Research Centre, Central Queensland University\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAikhenvald is a major authority on languages of the Arawak family, from northern Amazonia, and has written grammars of \u003cem\u003eBare\u003c\/em\u003e (1995) and \u003cem\u003eWarekena\u003c\/em\u003e (1998), plus \u003cem\u003eA Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia\u003c\/em\u003e (CUP, 2003), and \u003cem\u003eThe Manambu language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP, 2008) in addition to essays on various typological and areal topics, and numerous edited volumes. Her other major publications include \u003cem\u003eEvidentiality\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP, 2004), \u003cem\u003eImperatives and Commands\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP, 2010), \u003cem\u003eLanguages of the Amazon\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP, 2012), \u003cem\u003eThe Art of Grammar\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP, 2014), \u003cem\u003eHow gender shapes the world\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP, 2016), \u003cem\u003eSerial verbs\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP, 2018), \u003cem\u003eThe web of knowledge: evidentiality at the cross-roads\u003c\/em\u003e (Brill, 2021), \u003cem\u003eI saw the dog: how language works\u003c\/em\u003e (Profile Books, 2021), and \u003cem\u003eA guide to gender and classifiers\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP, forthcoming).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43652910874739,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":58.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_fe813a9d-0ef5-4098-ba7f-576d54553d55.jpg?v=1756295707","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-oxford-handbook-of-evidentiality-9780198901013","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}