The study of evidentiality is in its relative infancy, and each new
study in this largely unexplored area of linguistic structure
reveals subtleties of grammatical and semantic behavior that give
reason to reconsider and deepen analyses found in previous works.
Evidentiality is usually discussed in terms of the kinds of
justification a speaker has for making a particular assertion. When
the author first began studying the Wanka Quechua language, he was
immediately struck with the fact that the evidential system was not
behaving as he had expected. Careful consideration of the
individual markers revealed semantic nuances that are not usually
found in other treatments on this topic. This volume provides a
detailed look at the semantics of the evidential system of one
Quechua language with implications for others. Parallels are noted
with evidential systems of unrelated languages. The author analyzes
the Wanka Quechua evidential system using a cognitive view of
grammar and applies this approach to issues of semantics and
category structure.
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