dc.contributor.advisor | Gisborne, Nikolas | |
dc.contributor.author | Gurajek, Beata | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-09-07T14:45:08Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-09-07T14:45:08Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2010-11-24 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1842/5313 | |
dc.description.abstract | This thesis provides a synchronic account of evidentiality in English and Polish and the main ideas associated with the research on evidentiality with reference to these languages. Chapter 1 provides the review of main ideas as presented in the literature on the topic. Linguists provide varied definitions of evidentiality, therefore chapter 2 gives a unified description of evidentiality, understood as an independent grammatical and semantic category, and offers an organised account of its semantic types and sub-types. Chapter 3 and 4 analyse evidentiality in English and Polish, respectively, describing various lexical items with evidential meaning. Chapter 5 addresses the issue of the relation between evidentiality and other grammatical categories, while the final chapter looks at the correlation between evidentiality and epistemic modality. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | The University of Edinburgh | en |
dc.subject | evidentiality | en |
dc.subject | epistemic modality | en |
dc.subject | English | en |
dc.subject | Polish | en |
dc.subject | perception verbs | en |
dc.title | Evidentiality in English and Polish | en |
dc.type | Thesis or Dissertation | en |
dc.type.qualificationlevel | Masters | en |
dc.type.qualificationname | MSc(R) Master of Science by Research | en |
dcterms.accessRights | Restricted Access | en_US |