TY  - BOOK
AU  - Aikhenvald,Alexandra Y.
TI  - The Web of Knowledge: Evidentiality at the Cross-Roads 
T2  - Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences
SN  - 9789004466425
AV  - P121 
U1  - 410 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Leiden; , Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Language and linguistics
KW  - Linguistics
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Front Matter --; Preliminary Material; Author: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald --; Copyright page; Author: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald --; Preface; Author: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald --; Acknowledgements; Author: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald --; Abbreviations; Author: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald --; Tables and Illustrations; Author: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald --; The Web of Knowledge --; Evidentiality at the Cross-Roads; Author: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
N2  - Knowledge can be expressed in language using a plethora of grammatical means. Four major groups of meanings related to knowledge are Evidentiality: grammatical expression of information source; Egophoricity: grammatical expression of access to knowledge; Mirativity: grammatical expression of expectation of knowledge; and Epistemic modality: grammatical expression of attitude to knowledge. The four groups of categories interact. Some develop overtones of the others. Evidentials stand apart from other means in many ways, including their correlations with speech genres and social environment. This essay presents a framework which connects the expression of knowledge across the world's languages in a coherent way, showing their dependencies and complexities, and pathways of historical development in various scenarios, including language obsolescence
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004466425
ER  -