Evidentiality, Modality and Grammaticalization

Special issue of Studies in Language 48:3 (2024)

Editor

Eric Mélac | Université Paul Valéry – Montpellier 3

[Studies in Language, 48:3] 2024. v, 240 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 2 May 2024

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.48.3

Table of Contents

Position paper

The links between evidentiality, modality, and grammaticalization

Eric Mélac | pp. 513–542

Articles

Speaking about knowledge: Evidentiality and the ecology of language

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald | pp. 543–574
Evidentiality, discourse prominence and grammaticalization

Kasper Boye | pp. 575–607
On the link between grammaticalization and subjectification: The case of the Dutch modals

Jan Nuyts | pp. 608–637
Evidentiality as a grammaticalization passenger: An investigation of evidential developments in Tibetic languages and beyond

Eric Mélac & Joanna Bialek | pp. 638–681
Frequency differences in reportative exceptionality and how to account for them: A case study on verbal reportative markers in French, Dutch and German

Tanja Mortelmans | pp. 682–722
The paradigmaticity of evidentials in the Tibetic languages of Khams

Dawa Drolma & Hiroyuki Suzuki | pp. 723–752

Subjects

Main BIC Subject

CF: Linguistics

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General