Humans live in a perceptual world. All of humanity's accomplishments, from agriculture to
space travel, depend on us being able to interact with the world through seeing, feeling …

In some languages every statement must contain a specification of the type of evidence on
which it is based: for example, whether the speaker saw it, or heard it, or inferred it from …

How do we learn to produce and comprehend non-literal language? Competing theories
have only partially accounted for the variety of language comprehension evoked in …

This presentation reviews some major topics in current research on evidentiality and related
notions, notably:(1) the semantic domain of evidentiality and its various subdomains;(2) the …

Researchers have suggested that the vocabularies of languages are oriented towards the
communicative needs of language users. Here, we provide evidence demonstrating that the …

In brain and behaviour, gustation, and olfaction are closely linked to emotional processing.
This paper shows that similarly, words associated with taste and smell, such as “pungent” …

" _ The Amdo Tibetan data cited in this work forms part of a growing lexical and syntactic
database that I have been building up since 1982. The transcriptions (taxonomic phonemic) …

This paper argues that a definition of evidentiality as a linguistic notion should be based on
the pragmatic properties of evidential forms and their distribution in spoken discourse. The …

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 …

Abstract Language vividly connects to the world around us by encoding sensory information.
For example, the words" fragrant" and" silky" evoke smell and touch, whereas" hazy"," …