Evidentials as epistemic modals: Evidence from St'át'imcets
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Evidentials as epistemic modals: Evidence from St’át’imcets
This paper argues that evidential clitics in St’át’imcets (a.k.a. Lillooet; Northern Interior Salish) introduce quantification over possible worlds and must be analyzed as epistemic modals. We thus add to the growing body of evidence suggesting that the functions of encoding information source and encoding epistemic modality are not necessarily distinct. However, St’át’imcets evidentials differ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Linguistic Variation Yearbook
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1568-1483,1569-9900
DOI: 10.1075/livy.7.07mat