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This paper examines the reportative evidential dizque in Andean Spanish as spoken in Ecuador and Peru. Taking, as a starting point, the synchronic and diachronic syntactic analyses of this type of markers in Romance that have been discussed in the literature, I propose an analysis that makes explicit how their syntax is mapped into semantics, and provide a semantics that captures the evidential and lack of certainty implications of dizque. I argue that expressions with dizque must be uttered when reportative evidence is available to the speaker, and, building on previous literature, that the lack of certainty flavor that these expressions have is a not-at-issue entailment. I show a number of consequences that follow from this kind of approach. I further point out how my proposal can capture the cross-Romance variation that is found in this domain, and discuss some key differences between dizque and other reportative evidentials cross-linguistically in connection to the expression of lack of certainty.
Author(s): Martinez Vera G
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Languages
Year: 2025
Volume: 10
Issue: 11
Print publication date: 01/11/2025
Online publication date: 30/10/2025
Acceptance date: 28/10/2025
Date deposited: 30/10/2025
ISSN (electronic): 2226-471X
Publisher: MDPI AG
URL: https://doi.org/10.3390/languages10110276
DOI: 10.3390/languages10110276
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