1. Evidentials: Their links with other grammatical categories.
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Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y.
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EVIDENTIALS (Linguistics) , *GRAMMATICAL categories , *INFORMATION resources , *NOUN phrases (Grammar) , *VERBS - Abstract
Evidentiality - a grammatical expression of information source (, ) - is often expressed on a clausal level, and its marking is associated with the verb. In a few languages, a noun phrase can acquire its own evidential specification. Evidentiality can be expressed autonomously, or be fused with another grammatical category, including aspect, tense, or mood for verbs, or spatial distance and topicality for noun phrases. We investigate interactions and dependencies between evidentiality and other grammatical categories, both verbal and nominal. A number of such dependencies is supported by the diachronic development and history of evidentials. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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