sarah e. murray

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articles on evidentiality

The following is a (partial) collection of papers on evidentials from various authors. I've compiled this list for myself, but hope it will be useful to others studying evidentiality. *A few of the following articles are password protected -- please email me for access.


Faller, Martina. 2002. Semantics and Pragmatics of Evidentials in Cuzco Quechua. Ph.D. Dissertation, Stanford University. [ .pdf ]

Von Fintel, Kai and Anthony S. Gillies. 2007. An Opinionated Guide to Epistemic Modality. In Tamar Szabó Gendler and John Hawthorne (Eds). Oxford Studies in Epistemology: Volume 2, pp. 32-62. Oxford University Press. [ .pdf ]

Garrett, Edward. 2001. Evidentiality and Assertion in Tibetan. Ph.D. thesis, UCLA. [ .pdf ]

de Haan, Ferdinand. The Relation Between Modality and Evidentiality.In: R. Müller and M. Reis (eds.) Modalität und Modalverben im Deutschen. Hamburg; Buske: 201-216. [ .pdf ]

Higginbotham, James. 2005. Evidentials: Some Preliminary Distinctions. In Robert J. Stainton and Christopher Viger (Eds.). Compositionality, Context and Semantic Values Essays in Honour of Ernie Lepore. Springer Netherlands: 221-235. [ .pdf ]*

Izvorski, Roumyana. 1997. The present perfect as an epistemic modal. In A. Lawson and E. Cho (Eds.). Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory 7. Cornell. [ .pdf ]

James, Deborah, Sandra Clarke, and Marguerite MacKenzie. 2001. The Encoding of Information Source in Algonquian: Evidentials in Cree/Montagnais/Naskapi. International Journal of American Linguistics 67: 229-263. [ .pdf ]*

Matthewson, Lisa, Hotze Rullmann, and Henry Davis. 2008. Evidentials as Epistemic Modals: Evidence from St'át'imcets. In Jeroen Van Craenenbroeck (ed.), Linguistic Variation Yearbook, Volume 7. John Benjamins Publishing Company. [ .pdf ]

McCready, Eric and Norry Ogata. 2006. Evidentiality, Modality and Probability. Linguistics and Philosophy, Vol. 30, pp. 147-206. [ .pdf ]

Speas, Margaret. 2005. Evidential Paradigms, World Variables and Person Agreement Features. Italian Journal of Linguistics 16. [ .pdf ]




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