Functionalist accounts of language suggest that forms are paired with meanings in ways that support efficient communication. Previous work on grammatical marking suggests that word forms have lengths that enable efficient production, and work on the semantic typology of the lexicon suggests that word meanings represent efficient partitions of semantic space. Here we establish a theoretical link between these two lines of work and present an information-theoretic analysis that captures how communicative pressures influence both form and meaning. We apply our approach to the grammatical features of number, tense, and evidentiality and show that the approach explains both which systems of feature values are attested across languages and the relative lengths of the forms for those feature values. Our approach shows that general information-theoretic principles can capture variation in both form and meaning across languages.

Abstract This chapter examines and proposes plausible explanations for attested extensions of tense-aspect-modality (TAM) systems to inferential and reportative evidentiality based on the contrastive case study – British English (BrE) vs. Peninsular Spanish (PSp) – of some TAM markers realizing evidential functions: epistemic modals ‘must’, ‘must have’, and ‘ deber (de) ’, ‘ deber (de) haber’ ; future perfect verbal forms ‘will have’, ‘ habrá/n ’; and conditional perfect verbal forms ‘would have’, ‘ habría/n ’. It is argued that the parameters playing a crucial role in facilitating these extensions include immediacy in relation to the ground and reality (cf. Langacker 2017 ) for inferential values, while irrealis (cf. Givon 1989 ) and frame-shifting to a counter point of view ( Chilton 2014 ) are relevant for reportative evidentiality. Evidentiality and the TAM systems in English and Spanish Evidentiality and the TAM systems in English and Spanish Publication Studies in Language Companion Series Record type Book chapter Published 2 August 2018 Authors Juana I. Marín-Arrese DOI https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.197.05mar The publisher of this work supports multiple resolution . The work is available from the following locations: benjamins.com degruyter.com debug {'doi': '10.1075/slcs.197.05mar', 'member_id': '1757', 'member': 'John Benjamins Publishing Company', 'container-title': 'Studies in Language Companion Series', 'primary-resource': 'https://benjamins.com/catalog/slcs.197.05mar', 'tld': 'benjamins.com', 'clearbit-logo': '/static/no_logo.svg', 'coaccess': [], 'multiple-resolution': [{'url': 'https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/slcs.197.05mar/html', 'tld': 'degruyter.com', 'clearbit-logo': '/static/no_logo.svg'}], 'type': 'BOOK CHAPTER', 'published_date': '2 August 2018', 'publication': 'Studies in Language Companion Series', 'title': 'Evidentiality and the TAM systems in English and Spanish', 'name': None, 'id': None, 'location': None, 'display_doi': 'https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.197.05mar', 'grant_info': None, 'grant_info_funders': None, 'grant_info_funder_ids': '', 'grant_info_type': None, 'multiple_lead_investigators': [], 'multiple_co_lead_investigators': [], 'multiple_investigators': [], 'finances': [], 'project_description': None, 'award_amount': None, 'award_start': None, 'funding_scheme': None, 'internal_award_number': None, 'editors': None, 'authors': 'Juana I.

Epistemic modality and evidentiality are two categories that have not been clearly defined in the literature. In order to clarify the boundaries between them, I draw a detailed semantic map for Catalan modal verbs deure (‘must’), haver de (‘have to’) and poder (‘can/may’) in the Old period (11th–16th centuries). On the one hand, the modals deure and haver de develop an evidential reading (inferential process). On the other hand, an epistemic possibility value arises in the case of poder, which is not based on any explicit premise. I show that all these verbs are subjectively construed in different degrees and argue that a clear distinction between the subjective values and an evidential or epistemic interpretation is paramount. Evidentiality and epistemic modality in Old Catalan Evidentiality and epistemic modality in Old Catalan Publication Studies in Language Companion Series Record type Book chapter Published 2 August 2018 Authors Andreu Sentí DOI https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.197.07sen The publisher of this work supports multiple resolution . The work is available from the following locations: benjamins.com degruyter.com debug {'doi': '10.1075/slcs.197.07sen', 'member_id': '1757', 'member': 'John Benjamins Publishing Company', 'container-title': 'Studies in Language Companion Series', 'primary-resource': 'https://benjamins.com/catalog/slcs.197.07sen', 'tld': 'benjamins.com', 'clearbit-logo': '/static/no_logo.svg', 'coaccess': [], 'multiple-resolution': [{'url': 'https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/slcs.197.07sen/html', 'tld': 'degruyter.com', 'clearbit-logo': '/static/no_logo.svg'}], 'type': 'BOOK CHAPTER', 'published_date': '2 August 2018', 'publication': 'Studies in Language Companion Series', 'title': 'Evidentiality and epistemic modality in Old Catalan', 'name': None, 'id': None, 'location': None, 'display_doi': 'https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.197.07sen', 'grant_info': None, 'grant_info_funders': None, 'grant_info_funder_ids': '', 'grant_info_type': None, 'multiple_lead_investigators': [], 'multiple_co_lead_investigators': [], 'multiple_investigators': [], 'finances': [], 'project_description': None, 'award_amount': None, 'award_start': None, 'funding_scheme': None, 'internal_award_number': None, 'editors': None, 'authors': 'Andreu Sentí', 'chairs': None, 'supplementary_ids': None} https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.197.07sen JSON XML

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It is often assumed that cross-linguistically more prevalent distinctions are easier to learn (Typological Prevalence Hypothesis; TPH). Prior work supports this idea in phonology, morphology and syntax but has not addressed semantics. Using Artificial Language Learning experiments with adults, we test predictions made by the TPH about the relative learnability of semantic distinctions in the domain of evidentiality, i.e., the linguistic encoding of information source. As the TPH predicted, when exposed to miniature evidential morphological systems, adult speakers of English whose language does not encode evidentiality grammatically learned the typologically most prevalent system (marking indirect, reportative information) better compared to less-attested systems (Experiments 1-2). Similar patterns were observed when non-linguistic symbols were used to encode evidential distinctions (Experiment 3). Our data support the conjecture that some semantic distinctions are marked preferentially and acquired more easily compared to others in both language and other symbolic systems.

Understanding and acquiring language involve mapping language onto conceptual representations. Nevertheless, several issues remain unresolved with respect to (a) how such mappings are performed, and (b) whether conceptual representations are susceptible to cross-linguistic influences. In this article, we discuss these issues focusing on the domain of evidentiality and sources of knowledge. Empirical evidence in this domain yields growing support for the proposal that linguistic categories of evidentiality are tightly linked to, build on, and reflect conceptual representations of sources of knowledge that are shared across speakers of different languages.

Abstract The relatedness of non-finite constructions and evidentiality has been observed in various European languages. Passive matrix verbs plus infinitive in English, the corresponding though less productive pattern in Dutch, reportive passives in Danish, and evidential participial constructions in Lithuanian have all received attention in the literature. We continue this line of investigation, focussing on the Accusativus cum Participio, found in contemporary Lithuanian only with verbs of communication, cognition and perception. Our quantitative and qualitative corpus-based analysis investigates its distribution in different types of discourse and provides evidence to support the claim that the use of the non-agreeing ‘be’-participle is obligatory because it marks a proposition. We compare our account with similar uses of non-finite verb in other languages.

This study investigates the impact of evidentiality on source monitoring and the impact of source monitoring on false belief understanding (FBU), while controlling for short-term memory, age, gender, and receptive vocabulary. One hundred (50 girls) monolingual 3- and 4-year-olds from Turkey and the UK participated in the study in 2019. In Turkish, children's use of direct evidentiality predicted their source monitoring skills, which, in turn, predicted their FBU. In English, FBU was not related to source monitoring. Combined results from both languages revealed that Turkish-speaking children had better FBU than English-speaking children, and only for Turkish-speaking children, better source monitoring skills predicted better FBU. This suggests an indirect impact of evidentiality on FBU by means of source monitoring in Turkish.