The goal of this paper is to investigate the linguistic, psychological and cognitive properties of utterances that express the surprise of the speaker, with a focus on how grammatical evidentials are used for this purpose. This is often labeled in the linguistics literature as mirativity. While there has been a flurry of recent interest in mirativity, we still lack an understanding of how and w...


 This paper discusses the indirect evidential markers dizque in American Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese by focusing on varieties of Guayaquil (Ecuador) Lima (Peru), variety São Paulo (Brazil). I adopt a comparative approach which discuss their syntax semantics. To thoroughly document properties theoretically driven approach, comprehensive questionnaire building previous literature was u...

The article is devoted to the peculiarities of functioning modus category evidentiality in media discourse context digitalization. study motivated by importance identification information source and nature communicated. purpose this research reveal features representation types digital space. objectives include analysis feasibility taking evidential semantics as a subject matter news well provi...

The correlation between Information Structure and prosody has been central in theoretical and experimental studies. In particular, many studies have shown that focus induces particular prosodic patterns cross-linguistically. In Japanese, for instance, pitch register of the words following a focused element is reduced (called ‘post-focus/focal reduction’ in Sugahara 2003 and Ishihara 2003, 2007;...

This paper proposes a model for commonsense causal reasoning, based on the basic idea of neural networks. After an analysis of the advantages and limitations of existing accounts of causality, a fuzzy logic based formalism FEL is proposed that takes into account the inexactness and the cumulative evidentiality of commonsense causal reasoning, overcoming the limitations of existing accounts. Ana...