Meaning classes of evidential implications across languages

This paper discusses the meaning type of the evidential implications triggered by evidentials across languages. I argue that they do not fit into classical meaning categories such as presupposition (in the sense of Stalnaker 1974), conventional implicature (in the sense of Potts 2005), and conversational implicature (in the sense of Grice 1975). I explore cross-linguistically common and varied properties of the evidential implications, and propose their taxonomy, following Tonhauser et al.’s (2013) approach to projective content. On the basis of the proposed taxonomy, I examine various properties of the evidential implication arising from Korean evidential sentences with -te, and discuss which meaning class it belongs to in the proposed taxonomy. (Sungkyunkwan University)