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Title

Modality and theory of mind elements across languages / edited by Werner Abraham, Elisabeth Leiss.

Publication

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, c2012.

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Additional Authors

• Abraham, Werner.
• Leiss, Elisabeth.
• Societas Linguistica Europaea. Meeting (42nd : 2009 : Lisbon, Portugal)

Description

x, 460 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs, 1861-4302 ; 243

Uniform Title

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs 243.

Subject

• Modalität
• Theory of mind
• Modality (Linguistics) > Congresses
• Cognitive grammar > Congresses
• Grammar, Comparative and general > Aspect > Congresses
• Grammar, Comparative and general > Mood > Congresses
• Grammar, Comparative and general > Tense > Congresses
• Language and languages > Philosophy > Congresses
• Typology (Linguistics) > Congresses
• Modality (Linguistics)
• Cognitive grammar
• Grammar, Comparative and general > Aspect
• Grammar, Comparative and general > Mood
• Grammar, Comparative and general > Tense
• Language and languages > Philosophy
• Typology (Linguistics)

Note

• Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea held on September 9-12, 2009, at Lisbon, Portugal.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: pt. I The foundation: speaker and hearer deixis, shifter, and double displacement -- Epistemicity, evidentiality, and Theory of Mind (ToM) / Elisabeth Leiss -- Illocutive force is speaker and information source concern. What type of syntax does the representation of speaker deixis require? Templates vs. derivational structure? / Werner Abraham -- Exploring the Theory of Mind interface / Jakob Mache -- The distribution of knowledge in (un)acceptable questions / Sonja Muller -- Traces of Buhler's semiotic legacy in modern linguistics / Werner Abraham -- pt. II Instances of deixis and origo in sundry languages -- Modal particles, speaker-hearer links, and illocutionary force / Marco Coniglio -- Discourse particles at the semantics-pragmatics interface / Markus Egg -- Modality in the Romance languages: Modal verbs and modal particles / Benjamin Meisnitzer -- The epistemological treatment of information and the interpersonal distribution of belief in language: German modal particles and the typological challenge / Pierre-Yves Modicom -- On mood, evidentiality, and person effects / Helen de Hoop -- Illocutionary force and modal particle in the syntax of Japanese / Yoshio Endo -- What is it that keeps the rein on quotative modals so tight? A cross-linguistic perspective / Lukasz Jedrzejowski.

ISBN

9783110270198 (hd.bd.)

OCLC

• 794177128
• SCSB-12795162

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library