By Sarah E. Murray
ISBN-10: 0199681570
ISBN-13: 9780199681570
ISBN-10: 0199681589
ISBN-13: 9780199681587
mood. during this quantity, Sarah Murray builds on contemporary paintings within the formal semantics of evidentials and similar phenomena, and proposes a semantics that doesn't attract separate dimensions of illocutionary which means. as a substitute, she argues that each one sentences make 3 contributions: at-issue content,
not-at-issue content material, and an illocutionary relation. At-issue content material is gifted and made to be had for next anaphora, yet isn't really at once additional to the typical flooring; not-at-issue content material at once updates the typical flooring; and the illocutionary relation makes use of the at-issue content material to impose constitution at the universal flooring, which, reckoning on the clause kind, can set off extra updates. The research is supported through large empirical facts from Cheyenne, drawn from the author's own
fieldwork, in addition to from English and numerous different languages.
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