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Evidentiality and Perception Verbs in English and German (2010)
Book
Whitt, R. (2010). Evidentiality and Perception Verbs in English and German. Peter Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-0353-0306-3

Evidentiality, the linguistic encoding of a speaker’s or writer’s evidence for an asserted proposition, has begun to receive serious attention from linguists only in the last quarter century. Much of this attention has focused on languages that encod... Read More about Evidentiality and Perception Verbs in English and German.

(Inter)Subjectivity and evidential perception verbs in English and German (2010)
Journal Article
J. Whitt, R. (2011). (Inter)Subjectivity and evidential perception verbs in English and German. Journal of Pragmatics, 43(1), 347-360. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2010.07.015

The verbs of perception—verbs denoting sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste—are often used to express evidential meaning. That is, they indicate that speakers or writers have perceptual evidence for particular propositions. Although it has been take... Read More about (Inter)Subjectivity and evidential perception verbs in English and German.