The present volume assembles six studies on the marking of evidential functions. All articles, with one exception, take a synchronic view of the aforementioned contemporary languages, mostly on the basis of corpus data.

Inhalt

Introduction - Verbs of speech and perception as markers of evidentiality in Serbian: paths of semantic extension and conventionalization - (, , ) - Evidential adverbs of perception-based inference in Slovak - Polish sentence adverbs of hearsay: syntactic and textual distribution - Zur Abgrenzung von Evidenzialität und epistemischer Modalität (anhand ausgewählter Beispiele aus dem Polnischen) - Zur Abgrenzung von Evidenzialität und epistemischer Modalität (anhand ausgewählter Beispiele aus dem Polnischen) - An outline of the development of Polish jakoby in 14th-16th century documents (based on dictionaries)