The range of mirative meanings across the world's languages subsumes sudden discovery,
surprise, and unprepared mind of the speaker (and also the audience or the main character …

This paper draws on data from a quantitative study of upper secondary students' general
mathematical self‐efficacy, anxiety towards mathematics, and their relationship to …

This article re-presents the case, first presented in DeLancey (1997), for the mirative as a
crosslinguistic category, and responds to critiques of that work by Gilbert Lazard and Nathan …

Evidentiality is often defined as the grammatical means of expressing information source.
This paper argues for a broader definition of evidentials, as close work documenting …

Japhug is a vulnerable Gyalrongic language, which belongs to the Trans-Himalayan (Sino-
Tibetan) family. It is spoken by several thousand speakers in Mbarkham county, Rngaba …

Understanding of evidentials is incomplete without consideration of their behaviour in
interrogative contexts. We discuss key formal, semantic, and pragmatic features of cross …

This article argues, contra Hill (this volume), that mirativity is an independent linguistic
category. It also argues, contra DeLancey (1997), that this category should be defined not …

This dissertation describes Eastern Geshiza, a previously insufficiently known Trans-
Himalayan (Sino-Tibetan) Horpa language spoken primarily in eastern Geshiza Valley of …

Kurtöp is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by approximately 15,000 people in
Northeastern Bhutan. This dissertation is the first descriptive grammar of the language …

Within the grammar of the world's languages, knowledge can be expressed in various ways.
We focus on the grammatical expression of four major groups of meanings related to …