Epistemic modality refers to the linguistic means by which speakers express degrees of certainty, probability or belief regarding a proposition. It intricately links language structure with cognitive ...

Evidentiality and modality are interrelated linguistic phenomena that shape the way speakers encode and communicate their sources of knowledge and their degree of commitment to a proposition.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This article discusses the occurrence of voids in the intersection between Hebrew and Israeli Sign Language (ISL). Using Weizman’s ...

Across spoken languages, properties of wordforms (e.g. the sounds in the word hammer) do not generally evoke mental images associated to meanings. However, across signed languages, many signforms ...