Epistemic Meaning
A Crosslinguistic and Functional-Cognitive Study
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Beschreibung
This book deals with epistemic expressions: the linguistic means we have for expressing our degree of certainty about and our type of evidence for propositions about the world. It presents a cross-linguistic study of such expressions and demonstrates that they behave in a way that can be described in terms of a coherent but complex meaning domain. In order to account for this behaviour the book proposes to analyse epistemic meaning in terms of a coherent but complex cognitive structure which is bound up with our cognitive capacity for relating our conception of the world to the world.
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Kasper Boye
Themen in »Epistemic Meaning«
Evidentiality Language Typology Modality Modalität Evidentialität Sprachtypologie