Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. 1 Epistemicity in language: current horizons, future directions 1
4. Part 1: Epistemicity and context: different approaches to situated analysis of epistemic expressions
5. 2 To understand in interaction: the rise of epistemic and evidential constructions based on capire in spoken Italian 31
6. 3 Hearsay in Italian talk-in-interaction 69
7. 4 Considerations for the analysis of indirect evidentiality in Udmurt 111
8. 5 Egophoric and non-egophoric marking in Golog Tibetan 137
9. Part 2: Change and development of epistemic meanings
10. 6 Maybe or perhaps? – A corpus-based study of an on-going change in Present-day English 177
11. 7 Komnzo demonstratives and intersubjectivity 203
12. 8 Epistemic verbs in Scandinavian languages: Person-bound paths of functional specialization 229
13. Part 3: New parameters in epistemic research
14. 9 Egophoricity and formality in Kathmandu Newā 253
15. 10 From source of information to speaker commitments: a reanalysis of Quechuan evidentials 289
16. Index