Grammaticalization and the typology of evidential systems

Anna Postnikova
National Research University Higher School of Economics

Abstract. This article presents the results of a typological study of evidential systems in ninety two natural languages. The paper suggests some tendencies concerning the coding of evidentiality; it also considers the relationship between the grammaticalization and the semantics of evidential markers.

Keywords: evidentiality, typology, grammaticalization

For citation: Postnikova А. Grammaticalization and the typology of evidential systems. Typology of Morphosyntactic Parameters. 2020. Vol. 3, iss. 2. Pp. 147–165. (In Rus.)