German attitude verbs usually embed that-clause complements. In addition, only certain verbs can also license clauses with matrix verb-second (V2) word order as their complements. These same verbs can also appear in slifting constructions. The main question addressed in this paper is why only some attitude verbs allow these additional constructions. I argue that in slifting, the attitude verb f...

Classifications of evidentiality all include at least one ‘reported’, ‘quotative’ or ‘hearsay’ category. This category is found in many language groups that are attested to have evidentiality, including the Tibeto-Burman family. Although attested, reported often under-described both descriptive grammars specific languages, and typologies across survey family mention descriptions 88 130 language...

Abstract Increasingly globalized communication networks in the modern world may influence traditional patterns of linguistic change: contrast to an orderly sequential pathway change, more recently a number “mega trends” have been identified, which accelerate simultaneously time and space. The rise obviously within cohort adverbs evidentiality— naturally, evidently, clearly, course —may be one s...

Judith Tonhauser, The Ohio State University This talk explores the meaning of the Paraguayan Guaranı́ reportative evidential clitic =ndaje, based on corpus data and data collected in fieldwork, and compares its distribution and meaning to that of (reportative) evidential markers in e.g. St’át’imcets (Matthewson et al. 2007), Quechua (Faller 2002, 2007), Cheyenne (Murray 2010), and Tagalog (Schwa...

As a linguistic phenomenon with information sources as its core semantic content, evidentiality has received much academic attention. Based on data from Web of Science (WOS) 1992 to 2021, this study performed bibliometric analysis track the changes and characteristics evidential studies, focusing number published papers, prolific authors, journals institutions, highly cited literature. Our find...

Evidentiality or, following the French linguistic tradition, “mediativity” is a complex and controversial category, with an already extensive body of literature devoted to other languages few studies focusing on Portuguese. As conceptual abstracting away from its means expression, which some extent present in such as Portuguese that lack specific grammatical system for codification, evidentiali...