Matsui Tomoko, Fitneva Stanka A
Kyoto University, Japan.
New Dir Child Adolesc Dev. 2009 Fall;2009(125):1-11. doi: 10.1002/cd.246.
Evidentials are grammatical elements such as affixes and particles indicating the source of knowledge. We provide an overview of this grammatical category and consider three research domains to which developmental studies on evidentiality contribute: the acquisition of linguistic means to characterize knowledge, the conceptual understanding of knowledge sources, and the evaluation of others' testimony. We also consider the study of evidentiality in relation to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis about the influence of language on thought.
证据词是诸如词缀和小品词等语法成分，用以表明知识来源。我们概述了这一语法范畴，并探讨了证据性发展研究在其中做出贡献的三个研究领域：用于描述知识的语言手段的习得、对知识来源的概念理解以及对他人证词的评估。我们还结合萨丕尔-沃尔夫假说中关于语言对思维影响的观点来考量证据性研究。
