This volume is a comprehensive, up-to-date, and readable introduction to linguistic
meaning. While partial to conceptual and typological approaches, the book also presents …

Any product of the mind is also the product of the society to which the mind belongs. This is
obviously true for the present monograph as well, not only in the general sense that it is …

Evidentiality refers to the grammatical marking of the source of evidence for a proposition;
mirativity refers to the marking of a proposition as representing information which is new to …

Examples such as (1)-(3) have generally been thought of in terms of a process of'that-
deletion', ie an alternation between constructions like (1) and (2), with and without that. The …

This paper analyzes the role of subjectivity in epistemic modal expressions. It argues for an
interpretation of the dimension of subjectivity as a separate evidential qualification. On the …

In a number of languages, the nature of the evidence on which a statement is based must be
specified for every statement–whether the speaker saw it, or heard it, or inferred it from …

I have argued elsewhere (Hengeveld, 1987b) that for a proper treatment of modality the
clause model used in Functional Grammar (Dik, 1978, 1980) should be adapted in such a …

Some languages have evidential morphemes, which mark the Speaker's source for the
information being reported in the utterance. Some languages have logophoric pronouns …

In Responsibility and evidence in oral discourse twelve prominent linguists and linguistic
anthropologists examine'responsibility','authority', and'knowledge': central, but problematic …

This paper compares a few notions of 'subjectivity'(vs.'objectivity'or 'intersubjectivity')
circulating in the current functional and cognitive linguistic literature. It aims to demonstrate …