Mirativity and evidentiality in Bantu:  An Introduction

Hannah Gibson; Jenneke van der Waal

Mirativity and evidentiality in Bantu

An Introduction

Authors

Hannah Gibson University of Essex
Jenneke van der Waal Leiden University

Keywords:

mirativity, evidentiality, Bantu

Abstract

This special issue addresses how evidentiality and mirativity are expressed in various Bantu languages. Both the notions of evidentiality and mirativity remain underexamined for the Bantu languages – the following quote is quite typical: “It appears that expressing evidentiality as a verbal affix or clitic is the most common strategy.