Evidentiality: The Linguistic Coding of Epistemology

by Wallace Chafe (Editor), Johanna Nichols

Book by Chafe, Wallace

358 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1986

About the author

Wallace Chafe was one of the foremost original scholars of the functional theoretical approach to linguistics. He was involved in ongoing work with several communities of North American Indians, most notably the Seneca of New York. He also wrote extensively about discourse, language and consciousness, laughter, prosody, and other topics.
At the end of his life he was Professor Emeritus of the University of California, Santa Barbara.