Abstract
Evidentiality is a grammatical category that encodes information source as its primary meaning. The information can be: acquired through direct perception, reported by others (hearsay) or inferred by the speaker upon considering the information that is available. Languages with an evidential grammatical category have morphemes with a primary evidential value (Aikhenvald 2004). Nevertheless, Romance languages, like many other languages, have a tense- modal system and lack an evidential grammatical category, instead of which several lexical units or certain constructions convey information source. This special issue is devoted to some of those items, such as modal adverbs, evidential meanings developed from tenses such as the conditional, and certain (semi)grammaticalized markers using SAY-verbs and SEE-verbs. These evidential strategies are good examples of the lexical-grammatical continuum (Cornillie 2007b, Squartini 2008, Pietrandrea 2007, Diewald & Smirnova 2010).
Highlights
Polysemy and evidential extensions can be found in several domains, such as those of tense, aspect or modality (Squartini 2008)
It can be difficult to find the primary meaning of modal items or to determine whether a given modal or
An effort has been made to find contextual configurations linked to a particular semantic interpretation
Summary
Polysemy and evidential extensions can be found in several domains, such as those of tense, aspect or modality (Squartini 2008). These notions are, discussed in the second and third papers, but in the case of a tense marker, the reportative/epistemic conditional.
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