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Evidentials, genre and epistemic vigilance

open access: yes, 2016
In many languages with a grammaticalised evidential system, there are conventional associations between certain genres and evidentials so that evidentials may be used as genre indicators. Aikhenvald (2004) shows that that cross-­linguistically there is a
Unger, Christoph
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Seeing and knowing Direct evidentials revisited

open access: yes, 2023
The paper provides evidence against the claim that perceptual access is commonly encoded in direct evidentials. While visual, auditory, tactile and olfactory perception are conveyed by direct evidentials in contexts where such interpretations are ...
Bergqvist, Henrik,
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Semantic maps and the identification of cross-linguistic generic categories: evidentiality and its relation to epistemic modality

open access: yesLinguistic Discovery, 2010
Cross-linguistic generic categories like evidentiality, tense, aspect, number, and person are entrenched in linguistic theory. However, it is not clear whether there is much empirical substance to them.
Kasper Boye
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Inferential Interrogatives with qué in Spanish

open access: yesLanguages, 2023
In this paper, we discuss the evidential properties of inferential interrogative sentences with qué in Spanish. This interrogative type exhibits the shape of a wh-question but the interpretation of a polar question.
Ángel L. Jiménez-Fernández   +1 more
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Evidentiality in ­Livonian; pp. 41-54 [PDF]

open access: yesLinguistica Uralica, 2012
The study focuses on dedicated grammatical evidentials and ­evidentiality strategies in the two main dialects of Livonian — Courland and Salaca Livonian.
Petar Kehayov   +2 more
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Testimony and grammatical evidentials [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Unlike other sources of evidence like perception and memory, testimony is intimately related to natural language. That intimacy cannot be overlooked.
Van Elswyk, Peter, Peter van Elswyk
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Evidentiality in Tsezic Languages

open access: yesLinguistic Discovery, 2011
This paper examines evidentiality in Tsezic ...
Zaira Khalilova
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‘Not Sure What Is Going on Today’: Verbal Evidential Strategies in Celebrity Gossip Blogs

open access: yesNJES: Nordic Journal of English studies, 2014
Celebrity gossip blogs are rapidly becoming a widespread discursive practice to know the latest news about the rich and famous. Due to the numerous gossip blogs that exist in the blogosphere and their continuous flow of news, the bloggers feel the ...
Margarita Esther Sánchez
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The Expression of Evidentiality between Lexicon and Grammar: A Case Study from Georgian

open access: yesLinguistic Discovery, 2011
Evidentiality in Georgian is generally regarded as a part of the TAM-paradigm, since the perfect tense developed evidential value as a secondary meaning.
Manana Topadze Gäumann
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«Luego entonces». An argumentative intersubjective marker

open access: yesCatalan Journal of Linguistics, 2015
This paper shows that luego entonces is the product of a conceptual fusion, a Blend (Turner and Fauconnier 2002), of a bleached consecutive marker luego and a relatively less bleached consecutive marker entonces that led to the formation of an ...
Ricardo Maldonado, Rocío Guzman
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