Book on epistemic-evidential verbs in English published!

This announcement comes late… but my new book has been published!!!

Yesterday, I was invited to present it at the Scuola Normale Superiore (thank you for the invitation Valentina!) at the end of a very interesting day dedicated to epistemicity and evidentiality.

The title is “I reckon I know how Leonardo da Vinci must have felt…” Epistemicity, evidentiality and English verbs of cognitive attitude.

A synopsis of the book (also published on the publisher’s website):

English verbs of cognitive attitude are one of the means of giving voice to the subject’s epistemic-evidential stance. The interest aroused by these verbs is not limited to their semantics: it also lies in their functions in communication and, supposedly, in cognition. This book investigates the semantic and pragmatic features of this class of English verbs in the light of recent theories of dynamic meaning construal and analyses it as a good example of a complex dynamical system within which a number of micro-systems, i.e. the individual verbs, are embedded and occupy a rich semantic space in which epistemicity and evidentiality interact in intricate ways.

The book can be purchased directly from the publisher’s website or ordered in any bookstore.