Linguistic realization of evidentiality in European languages : [selection of contributions to the Workshop Linguistic Realization of Evidentiality in European Languages, held at the 30. annual convention of the German Society of Linguistics in Bamberg (F

This book presents a selection of contributions to the workshop "Linguistic realization of evidentiality in European languages", held at the 30th Annual Convention of the German Society of Linguistics in Bamberg (February 27-29, 2008), and additional papers, which have been especially commissioned for this volume. Its main focus lies on providing further empirical evidence about languages that have various - lexical as well as grammatical - evidential expressions. The papers in this volume will offer a cross-linguistic perspective on this topic as they deal with a number of different language families and languages: Romance languages (French, Spanish, Italian), Germanic languages (Dutch, German, English, Icelandic), Baltic and Slavic languages, Greek, Basque, and Turkish. Cover ......Page 1 Frontmatter......Page 2 Table of contents......Page 6 Introduction. Evidentiality in European languages: the lexicalgrammatical distinction......Page 8 Types of verbal evidentiality marking:an overview......Page 22 Hearsay in European languages: toward an integrative account of grammatical and lexical marking......Page 66 Information source in Spanish and Basque: a parallel corpus study......Page 138 Embedded evidentials in German......Page 164 Embedding indirective (evidential) utterances in Turkish......Page 194 Epistemic modality and evidentiality and their determination on a deictic basis: the case of Romance languages......Page 230 Evidentiality, polysemy, and the verbs of perception in English and German......Page 256 Evidential markers in French scientific writing: the case of the French verb voir......Page 286 An interactional approach to epistemic and evidential adverbs in Spanish conversation......Page 316 Revelative evidentiality in European languages: linguistic marking and its anthropological background......Page 338 Backmatter......Page 376 The book offers the first collection of papers which explicitly deal with the linguistic realization of evidentiality in European languages. The contributions summarize relevant previous research and develop new perspectives on the view of evidentiality. The scope of the papers ranges from broad overviews on areal and typological issues to in-depth studies of evidential expressions in particular languages.