One of the central questions in the study of evidentials cross-linguistically is to what extent
(and in what ways) evidentials differ across languages and across evidence types. This …

This article examines theoretical and typological characterizations of evidentials. Based on
the literature and newly analyzed data from Karuk (a Native American language of …

Many languages of the world have strategies for expressing whether the information
conveyed by the sentence is vouched for by the speaker or not. Speakers can consider …

The dissertation is devoted to the formal mechanisms that govern the use of evidentials,
expressions of natural language that denote the source of information for the proposition …

Evidence type, evidence location, evidence strength Page 96 © koninklijke brill nv, leiden, 2020|
doi: 10.1163/9789004436701_006 chapter 4 EvidenceType, Evidence Location, Evidence …

Current literature offers a range of analyses of evidentials in natural language, which can be
broadly grouped into two types: modal analyses (Kratzer 1991, Izvorski 1997, Ehrich 2001 …

This dissertation provides a description of the Chácobo language, a southern Pano
language spoken by approximately 1200 people who live close to or on the Geneshuaya …

This paper investigates the syntactic and semantic properties of American Spanish dizque
(lit.'it is said'). We claim that the not-at-issue meaning of this evidential is reportativity, while it …

This article provides an introduction for the collection of methodologically oriented papers
comprising this Special Issue. We define the concept of epistemicity as used in descriptive …

The aim of the present work is to provide evidence for two debates in the formal literature on
evidentiality (i) whether the evidential content of evidential elements is in the scope of …