Semantics of evidentials

Content: Cover
 The Semantics of Evidentials
 Copyright
 Contents
 General preface
 Preface
 List of tables
 List of figures
 List of abbreviations
 Cheyenne glosses
 Cheyenne orthography
 Language codes
 1: Introduction
 2: A semantic classification of evidentials
 2.1 Challengeability and commitment
 2.1.1 Direct and indirect challengeability
 2.1.2 Commitment to scope
 2.1.3 Commitment to evidence
 2.1.4 Summary
 2.2 Embedding and projection
 2.2.1 Negation
 2.2.2 Tense and modality
 2.2.3 Conditionals
 2.2.4 Embedding verbs
 2.2.5 Summary
 2.3 Interaction with questions
 2.3.1 Polar interrogatives 2.3.2 Content interrogatives2.3.3 Summary
 2.4 Summary and theoretical implications
 3: Evidentials and varieties of update
 3.1 A semantics for sentential mood: sentences without evidentials
 3.2 Declarative sentences with evidentials
 3.2.1 The direct evidential
 3.2.2 The reportative evidential
 3.2.3 The inferential evidential
 3.2.4 Conjunctions as sequential update
 3.3 Interrogative sentences with evidentials
 3.3.1 Polar interrogatives with evidentials
 3.3.2 Content interrogatives with evidentials
 3.4 Accounting for crosslinguistic patterns
 3.4.1 Challengeability and commitment 3.4.2 Embedding and projection3.4.3 Interaction with questions
 3.5 Summary
 4: Declarative sentences
 4.1 Framework: Update with Modal Centering
 4.2 Declarative mood
 4.3 Declaratives with evidentials
 4.3.1 The direct evidential
 4.3.2 The reportative evidential
 4.3.3 The inferential evidential
 4.4 Conjunction as sequential update
 4.5 Challengeability and commitment diagnostics
 4.6 Summary
 5: Interrogative sentences
 5.1 Interrogative mood
 5.2 Polar interrogatives with evidentials
 5.3 Content interrogatives with evidentials
 5.4 Summary
 6: Conclusion