Evidentiality: A Window into Language and Cognitive Development, Number 125
Posted by admin, October 30th, 2009
Evidentials are a feature of about a quarter of the languages in the world and Read More… This volume highlights new research in this area that focuses on evidentials: word affixes and sentence particles that indicate the speaker’s source of knowledge–for example, perception, inference, or hearsay. Much recent research investigates children’s understanding of the sources of human knowledge and the relation of this understanding to socio-cognitive development.
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