SOME EVIDENTIAL EXPRESSIONS IN THE ALBANIAN LANGUAGE AND THEIR CLASSIFICATION
SOME EVIDENTIAL EXPRESSIONS IN THE ALBANIAN LANGUAGE AND THEIR CLASSIFICATION

Summary/Abstract: Evidentiality is a linguistic category whose notional (i.e. conceptual or substance) domain which deals with information source. As Alexandra Aikhenvald notes: “Evidentiality proper is understood as stating the existence of a source of evidence for some information; that includes stating that there is some evidence, and also specifying what type of evidence there is.” (Aikhenvald 2004: 3) In typological research, evidential markers are fully grammaticalized expressions that encode the source of information, while ungrammaticalized expressions are considered “evidential extensions of non-evidential categories” or “evidential strategies” (Aikhenvald 2004: 421). More recently, what is covered by the notion of source in evidentiality studies has been revisited and different terminological distinctions have been proposed (cf. Izquierdo Alegría 2016, 2019, Wiemer and Marín-Arrese 2022b).

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