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1、AJournalReviewofOntheSyntaxandSemanticsofEvidentials1.Introduction2.AbriefsummaryoftheJournal3.Personalideasontherelationshipbetweenevidentialsandepistemicmodals3.1Thedefinitionsofevidentialityandmodality3.2therelationshipevidentialsandepistemicmodalsFirst,从定义本身来看，言据性强调信息来源，是客观的，而只是情态是客观的Second从认识
2、过程来看Third,从语言表达形式来看4.Conclusion1.IntroductionEvidentialityisauniversallanguagephenomenon.Asearlyas1911,theAmericanlinguistBoasdiscussedthislanguagefeatureinhisbookHandbookofAmericanIndianLanguages.In1971,Jakobsonfirstproposed“evidentiality”alinguisticterm,sincethen,evidentialityattractesmoreandmor
3、eattentionofresearchers,andtheresearchesarefruitful.Oftheresearchers,themostprominentareChafeandNichlols(1986),AikhenvaldandDixon(2003).ChafeandNichlols(1986)seminalcollectionofpapersonevidentialsbroughtevidentialsystemtotheattentionoflinguistsworkingonlanguagesthatlacksuchsystems.Theresearchofevi
4、dentialityisofboththeoreticalandpracticalsignificance.Thispaper,onthebasisoftheJournalOntheSyntaxandSemanticsofEvidentials,willexaminesomequestionsaboutevidentiality.Itconsistsoffourparts:thefirstpartistheintroduction.ThesecondisabriersummaryoftheJournal.Inthenextpart,Iwillsharesomepersonalideasab
5、outtheissueoftherelationshipbetweenevidentialityandepistemicmodals.Inthelastpart,Iwilldrawsomeconclusions.2.AbriefsummaryoftheJournalIntheJournal,theAuthorprovidesanoverviewofthethreecentraltheoreticalissuesaboutevidentiality.First,theAuthorexaminesthequestionwhethertheevidentialsformacoherentclos
6、ed-classsystem,independentofothersystemsofgrammar.Duringthispat,theAuthorpointsoutthatinsomelanguagessuchasTariana,theinformationsourceisobligatoryandthewaystoexpressinformationsourcehasbeengrammaricizedintoasmallandclosedclass.However,inotherlanguages,suchasEnglish,unlikeTariana,evidentialsarenot
7、ingrammaticalformsbutintheformoflexicons.Inthiscase,itisnoteasytojudgewhethertheevidentialsconstituteaclosessystem.Anyway,therearegreatcross-linguisticdifferencesinthewaystoexpressevidentitiality.Meanwhile,thecom
