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<p style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm;" class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">I would like to share with you two recent papers on mine, dealing with evidentiality, including the expression
of shared information source across languages, and a new approach to the multifaceted semantics of evidentials. In the most recent paper, ‘Speaking about knowledge’, you will see a discussion of the interaction between evidentiality, egophoricity, and mirativity
which may lead to a new take on semantic typology of evidentials (a continuation of what has been done within the
<i>Oxford Handbook of evidentiality, </i>now coming out in paperback with some corrections, later this year). </span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">A note is in order. </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">All the information on Tariana - an endangered and yet vital Arawak language of North-west Amazonia, Brazil - is based on immersion
fieldwork with the speakers of Tariana, over the past 30 years or so. The analysis in all my work (including the 2003 grammar, the Oxford Handbook, and umpteen other papers) is based on fieldwork, careful analysos and also on speakers’ intuitions, comments,
and our discussions. </span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm;" class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">An unfortunate incident has been recently brought to my attention. Someone by the name of 'Zemp' (currently
at the University of Bern?), has been making quasi-typological pronouncements, spuriously and gratuitously misinterpreting the Tariana markers of visual evidentiality as something else. Naturally, his work does not make sense (see attached, for instance).
Zemp does not know the first thing about the language - which is obvious from his 'typologies'.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm;" class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">We, grammar analysts, are no strangers to spurious re-interpretations by those who have little understanding
of the languages they dare ‘reinterpret’ and even less of linguistic typology. However, such misinterpretations are worrying and upsetting for all, including the speakers themselves. If Zemp has any vestiges of honesty, he will make a public apology to the
Tariana Nation. </span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Professorial Research Fellow and Australian Laureate Fellow</span></p>
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