Resumen de Evidentiality (and epistemicity) in Catalan parliamentary debate

Maria Josep Cuenca i Ordinyana

• This paper describes evidentiality in Catalan parliamentary debate, and its relationship with epistemicity. The analysis shows that in a language lacking an evidential system such as Catalan evidentiality is often expressed as an extension of the basic epistemic meaning and that inference is the most frequent mode of evidence. This preference can be related to the authoritative character of addressors in political discourse.