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Provides a cross-linguistic typological study of how languages deal with the marking of information source. This book is of interest to anthropologists, cogniti... » 

Provides a cross-linguistic typological study of how languages deal with the marking of information source. This book is of interest to anthropologists, cognitive psychologists and philosophers, as well as linguists. Examples are drawn from more than 500 languages from all over the world, several of them based on the author's fieldwork. «