Evidentiality in Bulgarian and Japanese
Evidentiality in Bulgarian and Japanese

Summary/Abstract: This paper deals with the problem of evidentiality in Bulgarian and Japanese. Bulgarian and Japanese are typologically different languages but both possess means to expess evidentiality. The paper examines the evidential systems of the two languages within the framework of the following conceptual problems: 1) the definition of the semantic domain of evidentiality, 2) the classification of the evidential values, 3) the grammatical status of evidentiality, i.e. is evidentiality a genuine grammatical category or not, 4) the relationship of evidentialy and modality, 5) the relationship of evidentiality and some other semantic categories like (ad)mirativity.

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