Expressions of indirectivity in spoken Modern Persian

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface v
3. Contents vii
4. Evidentials: semantics and history 1
5. Turkic languages
6. Some aspects of the acquisition of evidentials in Turkish 15
7. Turkish MiŞ- and iMiŞ-items. Dimensions of a functional analysis 29
8. Direct and indirect experience in Salar 45
9. Turkic indirectives 61
10. Reflections on -miš in Khalaj 89
11. Indirectivity in Gagauz 103
12. Between resultative, historical and inferential: non-finite -mIş forms in Turkish 115
13. Iranian languages
14. Indirectivity in Kurmanji 147
15. Expressions of indirectivity in spoken Modern Persian 185
16. Le médiatif: considérations théoriques et application à l’iranien 209
17. Epistemic verb forms in Persian of Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan 229
18. Traces of evidentiality in Classical New Persian 259
19. Other language areas
20. Evidentiality in Georgian 275
21. Confirmative/nonconfirmative in Balkan Slavic, Balkan Romance, and Albanian with additional observations on Turkish, Romani, Georgian, and Lak 329
22. Evidentially and typology: grammatical functions of particles in Burmese and the early stages of Indo-European languages 367
23. Expressions of evidentiality in two Semitic languages – Hebrew and Arabic 383
24. Perfect forms as a means of expressing evidentiality in Modern Eastern Armenian 401
25. Evidentiality in Komi Zyryan 419
26. Perfect, evidentiality and related categories in Tungusic languages 441
27. Evidentiality in Kinnauri 471
28. Index 483
29. 501-502 501