Statements are always under the threat of the potential counter-question How do you know? To pre-empt this question, language users often indicate what kind of

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 first volume to offer a thorough and systematic account of evidentiality and the expression of information source, Illustrated with extensive data from a ra

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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