Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Evidentials: semantics and history / Comrie, Bernard -- Turkic languages -- Some aspects of the acquisition of evidentials in Turkish / Aksu-Koç, Ayhan -- Turkish MiŞ- and iMiŞ-items. Dimensions of a functional analysis / Csató, Éva Ágnes -- Direct and indirect experience in Salar / Dwyer, Arienne -- Turkic indirectives / Johanson, Lars -- Reflections on -miš in Khalaj / Kiral, Filiz -- Indirectivity in Gagauz / Menz, Astrid -- Between resultative, historical and inferential: non-finite -mIş forms in Turkish / Schroeder, Christoph -- Iranian languages -- Indirectivity in Kurmanji / Bulut, Christiane -- Expressions of indirectivity in spoken Modern Persian / Jahani, Carina -- Le médiatif: considérations théoriques et application à l'iranien / Lazard, Gilbert -- Epistemic verb forms in Persian of Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan / Perry, John R. -- Traces of evidentiality in Classical New Persian / Utas, Bo -- Other language areas -- Evidentiality in Georgian / Boeder, Winfried -- Confirmative/nonconfirmative in Balkan Slavic, Balkan Romance, and Albanian with additional observations on Turkish, Romani, Georgian, and Lak / Friedman, Victor A. -- Evidentially and typology: grammatical functions of particles in Burmese and the early stages of Indo-European |