Apprehensional constructions in a cross-linguistic perspective

Martina Faller is a senior lecturer at the University of Manchester (UK). She has a long-standing research interest in the semantics-pragmatics interface from a cross-linguistic perspective. She has made major contributions to the study of evidentiality, including its relation to modality based on original fieldwork on Cuzco Quechua (Peru), and developed a speech act account of evidentials in this language. She has also published on quantification, pluractionality and the multifunctionality of alternative-sensitive particles..
Marine Vuillermet has worked with the Ese Ejja people (Tacanan, Bolivia) since 2005, and has written a grammar of the language. Her study of the language has led her to especially investigate apprehensionality from a typological perspective. She has also published on other semantic and syntactic aspects of Ese Ejja, and on the typology of spatial expressions, and she is one of the editors of the Areal Typology of Languages of the Americas (ATLAs) database..
Eva Schultze-Berndt is a professor of linguistics at the University of Manchester (UK). Her research interests include complex and secondary predication, part of speech systems, information structure, differential argument marking, epistemic authority, and language contact. She has conducted extensive fieldwork on the Australian languages Jaminjung-Ngaliwurru (Mirndi), and to a lesser extent Ngarinyman (Ngumpin-Yapa) and Kriol. Her interest in modality stems from observing the diversity of modal systems, specifically the diverse strategies of apprehensional marking, in Australian languages.