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Inferential evidentials and conjectural questions: support from Terek Kumyk
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Kasenov D., Daria P.
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СПб.: ИЛИ РАН, 2023.
Muravleva N., Славянский мир в третьем тысячелетии 2025 Т. 20 № 3-4 С. 144–172
The article examines the features of the past tense system in Macedonian resettlement dialects of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Serbia, based on a corpus of texts collected during a 2023 linguistic expedition to the villages of Jabuka, Kačarevo, Glogonj, Plandište, and Belgrade. The first section provides a sociolinguistic overview of the formation of the ...
Added: February 18, 2026
Poliakova E., Вопросы языкознания 2024 № 4 С. 77–95
One of the common features of the Nakh-Daghestanian languages is the evidential opposition
between some of the past tense verb forms, which mark (in)direct access to the information. Khwarshi has two synthetic past forms that are traditionally considered to form this kind of opposition, but,
according to our data, it may in fact not be based on ...
Added: November 13, 2025
Melenchenko M., Вопросы языкознания 2023 № 6 С. 120–137
This paper describes the semantics of one of the verb forms in Shughni, traditionally called Perfect. This form displays many areally-motivated typological similarities with perfects in other languages of Western and Central Asia. In particular, Shughni has developed an evidential opposition between the Preterite and the Perfect, in which the Perfect is used for non-witnessed ...
Added: December 27, 2023
Melenchenko M., В кн.: Двадцатая конференция по типологии и грамматике для молодых исследователей. Тезисы докладов.: СПб.: ИЛИ РАН, 2023. С. 125–128.
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Added: November 30, 2023
Plungian V., Journal of Pragmatics 2001 Vol. 33 No. 3 P. 349–357
The paper discusses the cross-linguistic classification of evidential values (including the so-called admirative value) and proposes a typology of evidential systems based on the distinction between ‘direct’, ‘reflected’, and ‘mediated’ evidence. ...
Added: November 12, 2023
Alexandra Milostivaya, Research in Language 2021 Vol. 19 No. 4 P. 369–388
The article is dedicated to studying communicative and pragmatic evidential constructions in newspaper political narrative. Based on the assumption that a communicative subject is represented as chain cooperation (“orderer” – editor – journalist – source – journalist), markers of evidentiality are matched with reference to the information about the events described on behalf of the ...
Added: September 2, 2023
Verhees S., Languages of the Caucasus 2021 Vol. 5 P. 1–68
Languages spoken in contiguous areas tend to have similar systems of evidentiality marking. The Caucasus is part of a large area where systems centered on marking events as not witnessed by the speaker are widespread among genealogically unrelated languages. It is often suggested that Turkic languages could be the source of diffusion in this case, ...
Added: January 18, 2022
Nikolaeva J., Budennaya E., Evdokimova A., , in: Linguistic Forum 2020: Language and Artificial Intelligence. CEUR Workshop Proceedings 2852Vol. 2852: Proceedings of the Linguistic Forum 2020: Language and Artificial Intelligence (LFLAI 2020), Moscow, Russia, November 12-14, 2020.: CEUR-WS.org, 2020. Ch. 7 P. 1–17.
The paper explores head and hand movements as markers of direct and indirect evidentiality, along with some lexemes in Russian. While there are numerous examples of evidential markers in speech, especially in languages where the category is grammaticalized, much less is known about non-verbal evidential markers. We claim that although there are no systemic rules ...
Added: May 21, 2021
Постникова А. Е., Типология морфосинтаксических параметров 2021 Т. 3 № 2 С. 147–165
This article presents the results of a typological study of evidential systems in ninety two natural languages. The paper suggests some tendencies concerning the coding of evidentiality; it also considers the relationship between the grammaticalization and the semantics of evidential markers. ...
Added: February 11, 2021
Kulikov L., Manevskaia I., TURKIC LANGUAGES 2019 Vol. 23 No. 1 P. 135–139
Review of a monograph discussing Mongolian past tenses ...
Added: October 14, 2020
Popova D., на рассмотрении 2025 P. 1–14
We have examined the evidential contrast between the first and the second past tense morphemes
in Komi-Zyrian. We found that in resultative contexts, the first past tense morphology
and the second past tense morphology compete with each other. While the use of the
second past tense morpheme signals that the speaker has indirect (inferential or hearsay)
evidence for the ...
Added: August 31, 2020
Penkova Y., Вопросы языкознания 2019 № 6 С. 7–31
The paper is dedicated to the semantics of future anterior with reference to the past in European languages. The study is based on the data from parallel corpora and on the questionnaire. Data from several European languages, such as Romance (French, Italian and Romanian), German, Baltic (Lithuanian and Latvian), Balkan Slavic (Bulgarian, Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian and its ...
Added: December 2, 2019
Dybo A., Шестакова Д. П., Язык и культура 2019 № 46 С. 24–42
Данное исследование находится в русле активно развивающихся современных направлений языкознания, таких как аспектология и грамматическая типология. В работе предлагается разностороннее рассмотрение семантики анализируемых лингвистических единиц с точки зрения различных аспектов, входящих в активно изучаемый в настоящее время семантический домен TAM (или TAM(E)). Все это обеспечивает актуальность настоящей работы. Аббревиатурой ТАМ(Е) – Tense, Aspect, Mood / ...
Added: November 15, 2019
Verhees S., Voprosy Jazykoznanija 2019 No. 6 P. 113–133
This paper explores how evidentiality is defined in recent research. It was inspired by the recent publication of The Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality and several other volumes, which provide a rich body of new material. The definition (or rather demarcation) of evidentiality encompasses both morphosyntactic and semantic parameters. I will address criteria for the distinction ...
Added: October 22, 2019
Muraviev N., Linguistica Uralica 2021 Vol. 57 No. 1 P. 39–55
This paper explores two non-finite temporal adverbial constructions, V-m/t- + măr and V-t- + sa, in the Kazym dialect of Khanty spoken in Kazym village, Khanty-Mansi autonomous region, Russia. The V-t- + sa construction expresses the meaning of point simultaneity (’when’), whereas the V-m/t- + mărconstruction is mainly used in the meaning of interval simultaneity (’while’). Yet, a more detailed look ...
Added: August 2, 2019
Verhees S., В кн.: Электронная письменность народов РФ: опыт, проблемы и перспективы. Сборник материалов научной конференции, 16-17 марта 2017 г., Сыктывкар.: Сыктывкар: КРАГСиУ, 2017. С. 228–235.
The article discusses evidentiality as a meaning of the perfect in Rutul, based on data from the dialect of the village Kina. The perfect has an unwitnessed past meaning in many East Caucasian languages, but this meaning is absent in Rutul. ...
Added: December 2, 2018
Verhees S., Voprosy Jazykoznanija 2018 No. № 3 P. 154–160
Book review of S. E. Murray. The semantics of evidentials. ...
Added: September 19, 2018
Verhees S., Iran and the Caucasus 2020 Vol. 24 No. 3 P. 309–324
This paper presents a description of evidentiality marking in the Rikvani dialect of Andi. As a language spoken in the Caucasus, Andi is situated in the centre of a large area within Eurasia where evidentiality is frequently expressed with a perfect or resultative form of the verb (general indirective), and special particles marking hearsay (and ...
Added: September 19, 2018
Verhees S., Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета. Серия 3: Филология 2018 № 57 С. 110–123
The paper considers the grammatical expression of information source with past tense forms of the verb in the Nakh-Daghestanian languages. These languages are spoken on a relatively compact territory in the North Caucasus and, partly, in the Transcaucasian area. The area is part of a larger area ranging from the Balkan Peninsula to Central Asia, ...
Added: September 19, 2018
Verhees S., , in: Tense, Aspect, Modality and Evidentiality: Cross-linguistic perspectives.: Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2018. P. 261–280.
This chapter deals with perfect forms of the verb in Avar and Andi, two East Caucasian languages. The presence of an ergative agent is shown to be an important parameter in distinguishing resultative constructions from resultative perfects in these languages. This distinction is relevant to determine whether current relevance meanings of the perfect are at ...
Added: September 19, 2018
Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2018.
After an introductory chapter that provides an overview to theoretical issues in tense, aspect, modality and evidentiality, this volume presents a variety of original contributions that are firmly empirically-grounded based on elicited or corpus data, while adopting different theoretical frameworks. Thus, some chapters rely on large diachronic corpora and provide new qualitative insight on the ...
Added: September 19, 2018
Apresyan V., Шмелев А. Д., В кн.: Компьютерная лингвистика и интеллектуальные технологии: По материалам ежегодной международной конференции «Диалог» (Москва, 31 мая — 3 июня 2017 г.). Вып. 16 (23): В 2 т.Т. 2.: М.: Изд-во РГГУ, 2017. Гл. 2 С. 17–29.
The paper considers the less known aspects in the functioning of Russian lexical “xeno” markers, in particular, of the particle jakoby ‘allegedly, ostensibly’. Traditionally described as expressing the falsity of a proposition contained in somebody’s utterance, in conjunction with a negative assessment of the utterer as aware of its falsity, jakoby displays very different usages ...
Added: August 29, 2018
Arslan S., Bamyacı E., Bastiaanse R., Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics 2016 Vol. 30 No. 16 P. 449–469
This study investigates the characteristics of narrative-speech production and the use of verbs in Turkish agrammatic speakers (n = 10) compared to non-brain-damaged controls (n = 10). To elicit narrative-speech samples, personal interviews and storytelling tasks were conducted. Turkish has a large and regular verb inflection paradigm where verbs are inflected for evidentiality (i.e. direct versus indirect ...
Added: June 20, 2018
Leiden: Brill, 2018.
The Caucasus is the place with the greatest linguistic variation in Europe. The present volume explores this variation within the tense, aspect, mood, and evidentiality systems in the languages of the North-East Caucasian (or Nakh-Daghestanian) family. The papers of the volume cover the most challenging and typologically interesting features such as aspect and the complicated ...
Added: March 23, 2018