This paper is about evidentiality markers in Brazilian Portuguese. Portuguese does not have obligatory and grammaticalised markers. From a geolinguistic perspective, however, the question arises as to whether contact with languages that such has an influence on nature frequency of marking First, some expressions indigenous territory Brazil will be discussed. Then, markers, especially diz que pa...

We show in this paper that some expressions indicating source of evidence are part of propositional content and are best analyzed as a special kind of epistemic modal. Our evidence comes from the Japanese evidential system. We consider six evidentials in Japanese, showing that they can be embedded in conditionals and under modals and that their properties with respect to modal subordination are...

What is the relation between language and thought? Specifically, how do linguistic and conceptual representations make contact during language learning? This paper addresses these questions by investigating the acquisition of evidentiality (the linguistic encoding of information source) and its relation to children’s evidential reasoning. Previous studies have hypothesized that the acquisition ...

The concept of ‘evidentiality’ is the only example an exogenous application a category derived from description Amerindian languages to European languages. In this contribution, first consideration evidentiality in ancient descriptions American Indian addressed. missionaries followed model Latin grammars, but some cases, they realised that these were substantially different. Without perceiving ...