Introduction: Evidence from Evidentials
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The collection of papers in the present volume represents the convergence of two research communities who had the common goal of exploring the formal basis of evidentiality. In the fall of 2007, a research seminar focusing on the cross-linguistic typology of evidentials was held at UBC. In the spring of 2008, GLOW hosted a workshop on the semantics evidentials whose broad goal of the workshop was to understand and explain what kind of category “evidentiality” is. This volume presents a selection of some of these seminar and workshop papers. Broadly speaking, evidentiality is the expression of the source of evidence for a proposition. Cross-linguistically, different morphological means are used to express evidentiality. For example, in English, evidentiality can be expressed by adverbial expressions (1), by modals (2), or by verbs (3). (1) Evidentiality expressed by adverbs:
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