Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. What do we know? Knowledge and evidence
6. Chapter 1. Evidentiality as stance 19
7. Chapter 2. Factual vs. evidential? The past tense forms of spoken Khalkha Mongolian 45
8. Chapter 3. I think and I believe 77
9. Chapter 4. (Yo) creo que as a marker of evidentiality and epistemic modality 99
10. Chapter 5. Finnish evidential adverbs in argumentative texts 121
11. Part II. When do we know? Accessibility of evidence in time
12. Chapter 6. Uralic perspectives on experimental evidence for evidentials 145
13. Chapter 7. Reportive sollen in an exclusively functional view of evidentiality 173
14. Chapter 8. The French future 199
15. Chapter 9. Evidence for the development of ‘evidentiality’ as a grammatical category in the Tibetic languages 227
16. Chapter 10. From similarity to evidentiality 257
17. Chapter 11. What can different types of linguistic data teach us on evidentiality? 281
18. Author Index 305
19. Language index 309
20. Subject index 311