This study explores the connection between language and social cognition by empirically
testing different typological analyses of various demonstrative systems. Linguistic typology …

Abstract Language and social cognition come together in communication, but their relation
has been intensely contested. Here, I argue that these two distinctively human abilities are …

This paper argues that a definition of evidentiality as a linguistic notion should be based on
the pragmatic properties of evidential forms and their distribution in spoken discourse. The …

A gripping and moving text which explores the wealth of human language diversity, how
deeply it matters, and how we can best turn the tide of language endangerment In the new …

The paper analyses the Swedish modal particles ju and väl as markers of engagement. This
analysis finds support in the distribution and frequency of ju and väl in a corpus of spoken …

This paper investigates the marking and management of interpersonal common ground in
Dungan, Uyghur, and Uzbek. The study shows that the three languages possess a shared …

This paper presents an annotation framework relying on the linguistic notion of speaker/user
engagement. This notion is suitable for a finer characteriza-tion of online hateful discourse …

The paper provides evidence against the claim that perceptual access is commonly
encoded in direct evidentials. While visual, auditory, tactile and olfactory perception are …

This paper discusses methods to investigate epistemic marking in Kogi, a Chibchan
language of Colombia. The type of epistemic marking prominent in Kogi grammar belongs to …

Previous research has pointed at naturalness and communicative efficiency as possible
constraints on language structure. Here, we investigated adjective position in American Sign …