Evidentiality, egophoricity and engagement

Henrik Bergqvist is Associate Professor in Linguistics at Stockholm University. He received his PhD in Field Linguistics from the Endangered Languages Academic Programme at SOAS (University of London) in 2008. His thesis was based on field work on the Mayan language Lacandón and since 2009 Henrik has also worked with speakers of Kogi and Ika, two Chibchan languages spoken in Colombia. Henrik’s research has focused on various forms of epistemic marking, such as evidentiality, egophoricity, and engagement, and he has published several papers on these topics.

Seppo Kittilä is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Helsinki. His main fields of interest include transitivity, grammatical voice, ditransitives and evidentiality. He has published extensively on these fields in leading journals (such as Linguistic Typology, Linguistics and Studies in Language), and edited volumes (by OUP, Mouton de Gruyter and Benjamins), and he is also the co-author (together with Fernando Zúñiga) of the recent textbook Grammatical Voice (Cambridge University Press). Seppo is a member of the Swedish Research Council’s evaluation panel for linguistics and he has received major grants from the Academy of Finland.