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 ...

This paper presents an analysis of how evidentiality contributes to both the mirative and metaphorical interpretations of sentences. The connection between evidentiality and mirativity has received some attention in the literature, particularily in various language grammars and typological studies, yet the category of mirativity has still not found a place within any theory of meaning. In a nut...

The current demands placed on scientists to increase public awareness of their findings involves recontextualizing highly technical research be understood by diversified audiences. In the present study, a corpus 20 online digests drawn from British Psychological Society website, which are condensed versions recently published articles, is quantitatively and qualitatively explored in terms (meta...

Languages offer various ways to report what someone said. There is now a vast but heterogeneous literature on speech constructions scattered throughout the semantics literature. We bird’s eye view of entire landscape reporting and propose classification along two dimensions: at-issue vs. not-at-issue, eventive non-eventive. This perspective leads genuinely new insights, for instance nature quot...

Evidentiality is a linguistic category that specifies the source of information conveyed in an utterance (Aikhenvald and Dixon 2003), such as direct observation, inference, or hearsay. According to Aikhenvald’s (2004) cross-linguistic study of over 500 languages, a typologically common pattern is to specify distinct sources of information with distinct morphemes, such as Quechua’s three evident...

This paper discusses three potential varieties of update: updates to the common ground, structuring updates, and updates that introduce discourse referents. These different types of update are used to model different aspects of natural language phenomena. Not-at-issue information directly updates the common ground. The illocutionary mood of a sentence structures the context. Other updates intro...

Ideophones are marked words that depict sensory imagery found in many of the world’s languages. They are noted for their special forms, distinct grammatical behaviour, rich sensory meanings, and interactional uses related to experience and evidentiality. This review surveys recent developments in ideophone research. Work on the semiotics of ideophones helps explain why they are marked and how t...

0. Preliminaries Evidentiality is a modal category that qualifies propositions in terms of the speaker's source of information (e.g., reported, inferential, hearsay). Compare epistemic modals, which mark the speaker's judgment of the factual status of the proposition, rather than the source of this knowledge. Evidentials are typically marked with verbal affixes, clitics, or particles. Languages...