How are evidential functions distinguished by means other than grammatical paradigms, i.e. by function words and other lexical units? And how inventories of such means can be compared across languages (against an account also of grammatical means used to mark information source)? This book presents an attempt at supplying a comparative survey of such inventories by giving detailed "evidential profiles" for a large part of European languages: Continental Germanic, English, French, Basque, Russian, Polish, Lithuanian, Modern Greek, and Ibero-Romance languages, such as Catalan, Galician, Portuguese and Spanish. Each language is treated in a separate chapter, and their profiles are based on a largely unified set of concepts based on function and/or etymological provenance. The profiles are preceded by a chapter which clarifies the theoretical premises and methodological background for the format followed in the profiles. The concluding chapter presents a synthesis of findings from these profiles, including areal biases and the formulation of methodological problems that call for further research.

• Preface
• Contents
• Part I: Prolegomena
• 1 Introduction
• Part II: Language Profiles – Germanic
• 2 Evidentiality in English
• 3 Tanja Mortelmans: Evidentiality in Dutch
• 4 Tanja Mortelmans and Katerina Stathi: Evidentiality in German
• Part III: Language Profiles – Romance
• 5 Evidentiality in French
• 6 Juana I. Marín-Arrese and Marta Carretero: Evidentiality in Spanish
• 7 Andreu Sentí: Evidentiality in Catalan
• 8 Mercedes González Vázquez and Elena Domínguez Romero: Evidentiality in Galician
• 9 Elena Domínguez Romero, Victoria Martín de la Rosa and Viviane de Moraes Abrahão: Evidentiality in Portuguese
• Part IV: Language Profiles – Slavic
• 10 Evidential marking in Russian
• 11 Björn Wiemer and Anna Socka: Evidential marking in Polish
• Part V: Language Profiles – Other
• 12 Evidentials in Lithuanian
• 13 Katerina Stathi: Evidentiality in Standard Modern Greek
• 14 Karlos Cid Abasolo and Marta Carretero: Evidentiality in Basque
• Part VI: Results
• 15 Conclusions and outlook
• List of Contributors
• Index of Authors
• Index of Languages
• Index of Subjects