Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Evidentials: semantics and history -- Turkic languages -- Some aspects of the acquisition of evidentials in Turkish -- Turkish MiŞ- and iMiŞ-items. Dimensions of a functional analysis -- Direct and indirect experience in Salar -- Turkic indirectives -- Reflections on -miš in Khalaj -- Indirectivity in Gagauz -- Between resultative, historical and inferential: non-finite -mIş forms in Turkish -- Iranian languages -- Indirectivity in Kurmanji -- Expressions of indirectivity in spoken Modern Persian -- Le médiatif: considérations théoriques et application à l'iranien -- Epistemic verb forms in Persian of Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan -- Traces of evidentiality in Classical New Persian -- Other language areas -- Evidentiality in Georgian -- Confirmative/nonconfirmative in Balkan Slavic, Balkan Romance, and Albanian with additional observations on Turkish, Romani, Georgian, and Lak -- Evidentially and typology: grammatical functions of particles in Burmese and the early stages of Indo-European languages -- Expressions of evidentiality in two Semitic languages - Hebrew and Arabic -- Perfect forms as a means of expressing evidentiality in Modern Eastern Armenian -- Evidentiality in Komi Zyryan -- Perfect, evidentiality and related categories in Tungusic languages -- Evidentiality in Kinnauri -- Index -- 501-502