Evidentiality in Language and Discourse

This collection dwells on the stimulating linguistic phenomenon of marking the information source in a sentence. Therefore, it explores evidentiality in some Indo-European, Turkic and Amerindian languages where the source of information is grammatically rendered (Macedonian, Persian, Russian, Turkish, Quechua) as well as in languages with lexical evidential markers (English, Spanish and Romanian). By harmoniously blending clear theoretical approaches and well-conducted discourse analyses, the collection highlights the overlapping of evidential and epistemic values that markers under focus usually display in a sentence. The collection directly targets linguists who are eager to discover or to forge their knowledge regarding the different manifestations of evidential markedness across languages, including master students and PhD candidates. It may also be of great interest to sociologists and anthropologists who attempt to strengthen their understanding of human language, in general, and to grasp the functioning of minority languages, in particular.