Evidentials and Modals offers an in-depth account of the meaning of grammatical elements related to evidentiality and modality, focusing on both theoretical and typological perspectives, ranging from Korean, Japanese, American Indian, Turkish and African languages.

List of Figures and Tables Introduction: Perspectives and Issues  Chungmin Lee and William McClure Part 1 Theoretical and Typological Perspectives on Evidentiality 1 Evidentiality and Information Source  Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald 2 A Possible Worlds Semantics for Cuzco Quechua Evidentials  Martina T. Faller 3 A Matter of Taste  Ezra Keshet 4 Evidence Type, Evidence Location, Evidence Strength  Lisa Matthewson 5 Testimony, Trust, and Evidentials  Elin McCready 6 A Hamblin Semantics for Evidentials and Evidential Questions  Sarah E. Murray Part 2 Issues on Evidentiality from Korean 7 Korean Evidentials and Epistemic Modals  Kyung-Sook Chung 8 Evidential Markers as Interactional Resources in Korean Conversation  Mary Shin Kim 9 The Nature of Evidentiality and Epistemic Modals: The Causal Event Structure  Iksoo Kwon 10 Evidentials: Nature, Interactions and Shiftability  Chungmin Lee 11 The Korean Pre-final Ending -te: A Historical Investigation  Ji-Young Lee 12 A Modal Account of ‘First Person’ Constraints on Evidential Sentences  Jungmee Lee 13 What Kind of (Doxastic) Alternatives Does the Korean Evidential -te Introduce (If It Does)?  Dongsik Lim 14 Evidential and/or Mirative Components of Some Verb Endings and Periphrastic Constructions in Korean  Jinho Park 15 Evidentiality in Korean  Jaemog Song Part 3 Evidentiality and Modality in Other Languages 16 Processing Evidentiality in Bilingualism and Aphasia: An Overview of Some Recent Studies on Turkish  Seçkin Arslan 17 Evidentials in African Languages  Robert Botne 18 Breaking the Illusion of Modality: Reclassifying Japanese darou  Marisa Nagano and William McClure 19 Epistemic Modality in Southeastern Tepehuan  Thomas Willett 20 Modal Particles yo/ne in Japanese  Kei Yoshimoto Index