Evidentiality, Modality and Grammaticalization
Edited by Eric Mélac
Special issue of Studies in Language 48:3 (2024) v, 240 pp.
Eric Mélac
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Titles
The Functions of Evidentiality
Edited by Eric Mélac and Pascale Leclercq
Special issue of Functions of Language 31:1 (2024) v, 114 pp.
2024 The links between evidentiality, modality, and grammaticalization: Position paper Evidentiality, Modality and Grammaticalization, Mélac, Eric (ed.), pp. 513–542 | Article
This paper introduces the main notions that are addressed in this special issue, namely evidentiality, modality, and grammaticalization. It defines each notion and briefly synthesizes the literature. It also presents some of the controversies which surround the ideas that prevail in these… read more
2024 Evidentiality as a grammaticalization passenger: An investigation of evidential developments in Tibetic languages and beyond Evidentiality, Modality and Grammaticalization, Mélac, Eric (ed.), pp. 638–681 | Article
This article investigates the grammaticalization patterns of evidentiality from a cross-linguistic perspective with a focus on Lhasa Tibetan. It documents the history of the evidential morphemes ’dug, -song, -bzhag, and =ze from Old Literary Tibetan to modern spoken Lhasa Tibetan. Our analyses… read more
2024 The functions of evidentiality The Functions of Evidentiality, Mélac, Eric and Pascale Leclercq (eds.), pp. 1–15 | Introduction
2021 Second language acquisition of evidentiality in French and English in a narrative task Language, Interaction and Acquisition 12:2, pp. 251–283 | Article
Evidentiality, i.e. the linguistic encoding of the mode of access to information (direct perception, inference, hearsay), despite not being fully grammaticalized in English and French, is expressed through a variety of means. This paper seeks to determine how a relatively non-salient concept in… read more