On the exceptional status of reportative evidentials
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Big question: To what extent does the contribution of evidentials within and across languages match the BC? This talk: examine an apparent systematic counterexample to the BC – the exceptional status of reportatives. ⇤Many thanks to Rajesh Bhatt, Paja Faudree, John Haviland, Polly Jacobson, Laura Kertz, Greg Kierstead, Loes Koring, Manfred Krifka, Sven Lauer, Sarah Murray, Mark Norris, Craige Roberts, Brett Sherman, Wilson Silva, Juan Jesús Vázquez Álvarez, and audiences at (Re)presenting the Speech of Others at the University of Groningen and Brown University’s LingLangLunch for helpful discussion of the ideas here. Thanks also to Juan Jesús Vázquez Álvarez, Mark Norris, and Anastasia Smirnova for data reported here for Chol, Estonian, and Russian respectively.
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