Evidentiality and interrogativity
| dc.contributor.author | San Roque, Lila | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Floyd, Simeon | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Norcliffe, Elisabeth | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-01-06T12:41:41Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-01-06T12:41:41Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Understanding of evidentials is incomplete without consideration of their behaviour in interrogative contexts. We discuss key formal, semantic, and pragmatic features of cross-linguistic variation concerning the use of evidential markers in interrogative clauses. Crosslinguistic data suggest that an exclusively speaker-centric view of evidentiality is not sufficient to explain the semantics of information source marking, as in many languages it is typical for evidentials in questions to represent addressee perspective. Comparison of evidentiality and the related phenomenon of egophoricity emphasises how knowledge-based linguistic systems reflect attention to the way knowledge is distributed among participants in the speech situation. © 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. | en |
| dc.description.sponsorship | We gratefully acknowledge our main funding support from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (Language and Cognition Department) and secondarily from the European Research Council (Project: Human Sociality and Systems of Language Use, Starting Grant no. 240853). San Roque’s research was additionally funded by the Swedish Research Council (Project: Complex Perspective in Epistemic Assessment) and is partly based on fieldwork funded by the Australian Research Council (Project: Language and Social Cognition). | en |
| dc.description.status | Peer-reviewed | en |
| dc.format.extent | 24 | en |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0024-3841 | en |
| dc.identifier.other | ORCID:/0000-0003-3620-5254/work/201527959 | en |
| dc.identifier.scopus | 84921962840 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1885/733803848 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.rights | © 2013 The Authors | en |
| dc.source | Lingua | en |
| dc.title | Evidentiality and interrogativity | en |
| dc.type | Journal article | en |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | en |
| local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage | 143 | en |
| local.bibliographicCitation.startpage | 120 | en |
| local.contributor.affiliation | San Roque, Lila; Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics | en |
| local.contributor.affiliation | Floyd, Simeon; Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics | en |
| local.contributor.affiliation | Norcliffe, Elisabeth; Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics | en |
| local.identifier.citationvolume | 186-187 | en |
| local.identifier.pure | f92a0d90-cf58-4598-8550-d0a7594d2b79 | en |
| local.type.status | Published | en |