Egophoricity and evidentiality: Different categories, similar discourse functions: Insights on conversational data from the Tibetan Plateau and the Amazonian Foothills

E Sandman, K Grzech - Interactional Linguistics, 2022 - jbe-platform.com
This article discusses how evidential and egophoric making is used to manage knowledge
in interaction. To this end, it analyzes interactional data from Wutun (mixed Sinitic, Northwest …

Evidentiality, discourse prominence and grammaticalization

K Boye - Studies in Language, 2024 - jbe-platform.com
This paper seeks to answer three questions:(1) What is the difference between grammatical
and lexical indications of information source?(2) What qualifies an element for …

Seeing and knowing: Direct evidentials revisited

H Bergqvist - Functions of Language, 2023 - jbe-platform.com
The paper provides evidence against the claim that perceptual access is commonly
encoded in direct evidentials. While visual, auditory, tactile and olfactory perception are …

Evidential strategies in English: not just lexical

EM Riddle - Folia Linguistica, 2024 - degruyter.com
Abstract English is generally considered to lack grammaticalized evidential markers
(Aikhenvald 2004. Evidentiality. Oxford: Oxford University Press). However, Mélac (2022 …

Once known, always known. Turn-final sai in North-East regional Italian

M Biasio, D Del Fante - Folia Linguistica, 2024 - degruyter.com
This paper focuses on the structural and functional properties of a positionally flexible verb-
based discourse marker, sai (lit.'you know'), which in its turn-final position is a conversational …

Pragmatic effects of intersubjective evidentiality: On Classical Greek oukh horâis?'don't you see?'in dialogic interaction

M Napoli - Journal of Greek Linguistics, 2024 - brill.com
I aim here to analyze the semantic and pragmatic functions of the negative question oukh
horâis?'don't you see?'in the context of dialogic interactions in Classical Greek. In light of …

Pronombre o adjetivo demostrativo o este… marcador del discurso: El uso del marcador del discurso este en el español de México

P Mayr, J Harjus - Linguistik online, 2024 - bop.unibe.ch
This paper aims to present observations on the pragmaticalized use as well as the
concomitant functions of the demonstrative este in Mexican Spanish. Este seems to serve an …

Facts and attitudes: on the so-called 'factual'markers of the modern Tibetic languages [HL ARCHIVE 14]

B Zeisler - Himalayan Linguistics, 2024 - escholarship.org
The evidential or egophoric systems of various modern Tibetic languages are described as
containing a 'factual'copula and a complex 'factual'existential, in opposition to the egophoric …

'Apparently'in an English-Swedish Cross-linguistic Perspective

K Aijmer - Nordic Journal of English Studies, 2024 - publicera.kb.se
Evidential markers have the function of indicating the source of information or evidence on
which a statement is based. The aim of the present paper is to identify and disentangle the …

Indagine attorno alla categoria dell'evidenzialità nell'ambito della lingua ungherese e delle sue varietà diacroniche e diatopiche

E Rózsavölgyi - … ORIENTALE DI NAPOLI. STUDI FINNO-UGRICI, 2023 - iris.uniroma1.it
This paper aims to investigate the category of evidentiality in Hungarian. Evidentiality refers
to the ways languages encode information source. In contemporary standard Hungarian …