Towards a new approach to evidentiality : issues and directions for research

• Main Authors: Tournadre, Nicolas, LaPolla, Randy J.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Humanities::Linguistics; Eventual Marking; Cognitive Linguistics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/145731
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Evidentiality is often defined as the grammatical means of expressing information source. This paper argues for a broader definition of evidentials, as close work documenting languages has shown that simply saying evidentials mark source of information does not capture all of the actual uses of ev...