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In this paper I will examine some data relating to evidential systems in various languages and existing formal semantic analyses of evidential phenomena, with an eye to determining the extent to which available systems are capable of accounting for the full range of facts. Data will be drawn largely from [1] and from the formal semantic works I’ll discuss.
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McCready, E. (2008). Semantic Heterogeneity in Evidentials. In: Satoh, K., Inokuchi, A., Nagao, K., Kawamura, T. (eds) New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. JSAI 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4914. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78197-4_10
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