This paper provides a description of the modal system of Gitksan (Tsimshianic) and places
the Gitksan system within an emerging formal typology of modality. I show that Gitksan …

The goal of this paper is to investigate the linguistic, psychological and cognitive properties
of utterances that express the surprise of the speaker, with a focus on how grammatical …

The aim of this paper is to investigate how evidentials are used to reflect the unprepared
mind of the speaker. Lexical evidentials are typically used by speakers to encode the kinds …

The meaning of gradable predicates, comparison, and related constructions has been a
topic of interest for linguists for decades.* Many key insights into this domain were noticed as …

This chapter presents a sketch of the grammatical evidential system and related epistemic
meanings in Gitksan, a critically endangered indigenous language of the Tsimshianic …

This paper presents a comparative analysis of the Brazilian Portuguese (BrP) modal
auxiliaries 'poder','dever'and 'ter que'in order to map their semantics. Its aim is to describe …

The aim of this paper is to investigate how evidentials are used to reflect the unprepared
mind of the speaker. Lexical evidentials are typically used by speakers to encode the kinds …

To date, I have done two projects with speakers of endangered languages in collaboration
with linguists: one in Botswana and one in western Canada. Linguistically and culturally …

In this paper I test the predictions of previous analyses of Gitksan (Tsimshianic) modals on a
corpus of 36 Gitksan stories. See Reisinger et al.(2022) for a similar (but more in-depth) …

Neste artigo, discutimos a motivação e adequação de uma semântica de graus para o verbo
modal dever do português, no âmbito de uma crescente literatura sobre o papel da noção …