Spanish displays a set of diverse contexts in which constituents are frozen inside the VP: only direct objects and postverbal subjects but not preverbal subjects or IP material are licensed. These environments include: indefinites licensed by modals, syntactically-marked focus (as opposed to stress-focus), evidentials, etc. It is argued that all of these contexts involve a projection exactly ab...

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 R...

evidence occupies a paramount position in any logical endeavor and research article is consensually considered a predominant site of such an endeavor. one interesting area of rhetoric which addresses the source and reliability of evidence is quality metadiscourse. in this qualitative study, quality metadiscourse strategies (i.e., evidentials, hedges, boosters and disclaimers) are examined to in...

Evidence occupies a paramount position in any logical endeavor and research article is consensually considered a predominant site of such an endeavor. One interesting area of rhetoric which addresses the source and reliability of evidence is quality metadiscourse. In this qualitative study, quality metadiscourse strategies (i.e., evidentials, hedges, boosters and disclaimers) are examined to in...

Recently J. Lee (2010) made the distinction clear about the evidential –te in Korean between inferential evidential reading with PAST and direct evidential reading with PRES in tense. She offers a modal analysis of this typologically interesting evidential. I argue here that this evidential category, though with some modal force, must be distinguished from an epistemic modal category of conject...

Evidentiality is the linguistic representation of the nature of evidence for a statement. In other words, it is the linguistically encoded evidence for the trustworthiness of a statement. In this paper, we aim to explore how linguistically encoded information of evidentiality can contribute to the prediction of trustworthiness in natural language processing (NLP). We propose to incorporate evid...