Although encoding of evidential distinctions has been attested in most language areas of the world, relatively little has been written about evidentiality in sub-Saharan African languages. This paper describes the situation in Lega, a Bantu language spoken in eastern Zaire. The study considers Lega data in light of several models of evidentiality and suggests that their may be two organizational principles operating in different languages: one based on source of information, the other on mode of knowing.
2009. Evidentials: Some Preliminary Distinctions. In Compositionality, Context and Semantic Values [Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, 85], ► pp. 221 ff.
González, Montserrat
2005. An approach to Catalan evidentiality. Intercultural Pragmatics 2:4
KOCKELMAN, PAUL
2004. Stance and Subjectivity. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 14:2 ► pp. 127 ff.
Squartini, Mario
2004. Disentangling evidentiality and epistemic modality in Romance. Lingua 114:7 ► pp. 873 ff.
Squartini, Mario
2008. Lexical vs. grammatical evidentiality in French and Italian. Linguistics 46:5
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