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.
Despre autor
Gabriele Diewald and Elena Smirnova, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany.