Speakers' lexical choices are affected by interpersonal-level influences, like a tendency to reuse an interlocutor's words. Here, we examined how those additionally community-level factors, whether the interlocutor is from their own or another speech community (in-community vs. out-community partner), and such interpersonal experiences contribute acquisition of linguistic knowledge. Our three e...

In this essay, we approach the question of language, thought, and reality by studying how grammar lexicon encode our relation to world (veridicality). We will address fundamental categories knowledge belief focus on specific grammatical devices such as mood morphemes (subjunctive indicative), attitude verbs belief, expressions possibility necessity modal (must, may, will, might). What is functi...