This book is intended to contribute to the clarification of the
linguistic research area covered by the terms modal, evidential and
epistemic. It sets out to demonstrate that on cross-linguistic
grounds a hitherto overlooked epistemic meaning domain must be
given due recognition in linguistic theory, on a par with domains
such as time and number. The relevant domain is coherent, but at
the same time complex in that it consists of two subdomains: one
which comprises degree-of-certainty meanings, and one which
comprises information-source meanings. The book offers three
arguments for giving recognition to such a meaning domain. The
first argument concerns the clustering of linguistic expressions
with epistemic meaning into morphosyntactically delimited systems
of elements. The second argument has to do with the variation
pertaining to the coding of epistemic meanings, as highlighted in a
semantic map of epistemic expressions. The third argument turns
upon the scope properties of epistemic meanings and the
morphosyntactic reflections of these properties. Finally, the book
proposes a unified cognitive analysis of epistemic meaning in terms
of which it attempts to account for the properties of the epistemic
meaning domain as well as of individual epistemic meanings.
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