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This book uses Sperber and Wilson s Relevance Theory to show how evidential expressions can be analysed in a unified semantic/pragmatic framework. The first par

Evidentials and Modals offers an in-depth account of the meaning of grammatical elements related to evidentiality and modality, focusing on both theoretical and

In some languages every statement must contain a specification of the type of evidence on which it is based: for example, whether the speaker saw it, or heard i

The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual langua

This volume offers a thorough, systematic, and crosslinguistic account of evidentiality, the linguistic encoding of the source of information on which a stateme