Evidentials and Modals

Chungmin Lee, Ph.D. (1973), Indiana University and Seoul National University, is a Professor Emeritus of Linguistics (and Cognitive Science) at that university and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, ROK. He has published papers on semantics, Korean and English Semantics on presupposition, negative imperative, negative polarity, and information structure in journals like Language, Foundations of Language, Linguistic Inquiry. He has been on editorial boards of Linguistics and Philosophy and several other journals. He edited Topic and Focus with Buring and Gordon (Springer, 2006) and is editor of Springer's series Language, Cognition, and Mind (LCAM).Jinho Park, Ph.D. (2003), Seoul National University, is Professor of Korean Linguistics at that university. His research interests include linguistic typology, syntax and semantics of Asian languages, corpus linguistics and natural language processing.

• List of Figures and TablesIntroduction: Perspectives and IssuesChungmin Lee and William McClurePart 1 Theoretical and Typological Perspectives on Evidentiality1 Evidentiality and Information SourceAlexandra Y. Aikhenvald2 A Possible Worlds Semantics for Cuzco Quechua EvidentialsMartina T. Faller3 A Matter of TasteEzra Keshet4 Evidence Type, Evidence Location, Evidence StrengthLisa Matthewson5 Testimony, Trust, and EvidentialsElin McCready6 A Hamblin Semantics for Evidentials and Evidential QuestionsSarah E. MurrayPart 2 Issues on Evidentiality from Korean7 Korean Evidentials and Epistemic ModalsKyung-Sook Chung8 Evidential Markers as Interactional Resources in Korean ConversationMary Shin Kim9 The Nature of Evidentiality and Epistemic Modals: The Causal Event StructureIksoo Kwon10 Evidentials: Nature, Interactions and ShiftabilityChungmin Lee11 The Korean Pre-final Ending -te: A Historical InvestigationJi-Young Lee12 A Modal Account of ‘First Person’ Constraints on Evidential SentencesJungmee Lee13 What Kind of (Doxastic) Alternatives Does the Korean Evidential -te Introduce (If It Does)?Dongsik Lim14 Evidential and/or Mirative Components of Some Verb Endings and Periphrastic Constructions in KoreanJinho Park15 Evidentiality in KoreanJaemog SongPart 3 Evidentiality and Modality in Other Languages16 Processing Evidentiality in Bilingualism and Aphasia: An Overview of Some Recent Studies on TurkishSeçkin Arslan17 Evidentials in African LanguagesRobert Botne18 Breaking the Illusion of Modality: Reclassifying Japanese darouMarisa Nagano and William McClure19 Epistemic Modality in Southeastern TepehuanThomas Willett20 Modal Particles yo/ne in JapaneseKei YoshimotoIndex