LINGUIST List 21.3520 Sat Sep 04 2010 Books: Discourse Analysis/Historical Linguistics: Diewald, Smirnova Editor for this issue: Maria Moreno-Rollins <marialinguistlist.org> Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers are available at the end of this issue. Directory         1.    Julia Ulrich, Evidentiality in German: Diewald, Smirnova Message 1: Evidentiality in German: Diewald, Smirnova Date: 03-Sep-2010 From: Julia Ulrich <julia.ulrichdegruyter.com> Subject: Evidentiality in German: Diewald, Smirnova E-mail this message to a friend Title: Evidentiality in German Subtitle: Linguistic Realization and Regularities in Grammaticalization Series Title: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 228 Published: 2010 Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton                 http://www.degruyter.com/mouton Book URL: http://www.degruyter.de/cont/fb/sk/detailEn.cfm?id=IS-9783110240696-1 Author: Gabriele Diewald Author: Elena Smirnova Electronic: ISBN: 9783110241037 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 99.95 Hardback: ISBN: 9783110240696 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 99.95 Abstract: This book is a comprehensive study of the evidential system in German. It presents a systematic description of the encoding of evidentiality in present-day German, as well as a diachronic reconstruction of the relevant sources and paths of grammaticalization from the Old High German period onwards. Based on empirical corpus research, the study investigates the degree of grammaticalization of each single evidential construction and the make-up of the present-day system as well as the diachronic stages that lead to the present state. The book focuses on three main issues. First, it is concerned with the general notion of evidentiality, its deictic character, and with the interrelations between the domains of evidentiality and epistemic modality. Second, the book presents the results of the synchronic corpus-based analysis of the German evidential periphrastic constructions "werden" 'become' + infinitive, "scheinen" 'seem', "drohen" 'threaten', "versprechen" 'promise' + zu 'to'- infinitive, which constitute a paradigm for coding evidentiality in Present Day German. Third, the diachronic development of the evidential constructions is represented as a complex grammaticalization process, interacting with the development of modal constructions and leading to a highly differentiated category of modal and evidential distinctions in the grammar of German. 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