Evidentials are grammatical elements such as affixes and particles indicating the source of
knowledge. We provide an overview of this grammatical category and consider three …

Scientific writing presents a set of rhetorical strategies to effectively express mitigation of
claims. Critical analysis includes epistemic modality and evidentiality within these …

Recent research has indicated that conceptual development in a specific domain may not be
independent of the way it is mapped linguistically. We explore this claim in the semantic …

In the study reported here, Japanese-speaking children aged 3–6 were confronted with
making choices based on conflicting input from speakers who varied in the degree of …

Hart (this issue) offers a biologically based explanation for the use of an 'epistemic
positioning strategy'aimed by speakers/writers at the legitimization of assertions, at …

The use of evidential and epistemic marking as a rhetorical strategy has received little
attention in the literature. Speakers often make judgments on the basis of perceptual …

We describe the nature of the evidential system in Tibetan and consider the challenges that
any evidential system presents to language acquisition. We present data from Tibetan …

Blind people's inferences about how other people see provide a window into fundamental
questions about the human capacity to think about one another's thoughts. By working with …

A pesar de que los tiempos verbales son a menudo usados de manera atípica (tiempo
verbal presente para describir eventos en el pasado o el futuro, tiempo verbal pasado para …

In English and perhaps all other languages, there is a class of expressions which has been
generally characterized as semantically non-truth-conditional and syntactically peripheral …