Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality in Spanish (Semi-)Auxiliaries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality in Spanish (Semi-)Auxiliaries write by Bert Cornillie. This book was released on 2008-08-27. Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality in Spanish (Semi-)Auxiliaries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume presents a systematic and comprehensive analysis of the Spanish evidential semi-auxiliaries parecer and resultar, the modal constructions with amenazar and prometer, and the modal auxiliaries poder, deber and tener que. These verbs have never been considered together in a global approach that transcends the classical "verbal periphrases" model. The book proposes a cognitive-functional account of evidentiality and modality in Spanish with special attention to subjectivity and grounding. The theoretical reflection relies on empirical evidence of two sorts: synchronic and diachronic corpus-analyses alternate with tests that measure the semantic and pragmatic compatibility of the evidential and epistemic constructions with specific sentences. Following the assumption that linguistic forms are determined by their meaning, the array of constructions that characterizes the different verbs justifies their grouping in three pairs of (semi-)auxiliaries: parecer vs resultar, amenazar vs prometer and poder vs deber/tener que. The distributional differences observed in the corpus are further shown to correlate with different degrees of grammaticalization. Primarily intended for scholars working in the field of Spanish functional linguistics, the monograph is also relevant for grammaticalization studies and for cognitive-semantic research at large. Given its combined theoretical and applied character, the volume is also of interest to anyone concerned with syntactic processes, lexical semantics or the wider area of discourse analysis and pragmatics.
Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality in Spanish (semi-)auxiliaries
Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality in Spanish (semi-)auxiliaries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality in Spanish (semi-)auxiliaries write by Bert Cornillie. This book was released on 2004. Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality in Spanish (semi-)auxiliaries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Modality and Mood in Romance
Modality and Mood in Romance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Modality and Mood in Romance write by Martin G. Becker. This book was released on 2010-12-20. Modality and Mood in Romance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collective volume contains a selection of research contributions, presented at the 30th Deutscher Romanistentag [German Conference on Romance languages and literatures] in 2007 in Vienna in the section “Mood and Modality in Romance”. The Romance languages studied here include Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Catalan and French. All contributions thematically explore the status and importance of modality and mood and their reciprocal relationships with reference to theoretical approaches.
Evidentiality in German
Evidentiality in German - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Evidentiality in German write by Gabriele Diewald. This book was released on 2010-08-31. Evidentiality in German available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a comprehensive study of the evidential system in German. It presents a systematic description of the encoding of evidentiality in present-day German, as well as a diachronic reconstruction of the relevant sources and paths of grammaticalization from the Old High German period onwards. Based on empirical corpus research, the study investigates the degree of grammaticalization of each single evidential construction and the make-up of the present-day system as well as the diachronic stages that lead to the present state. The book focuses on three main issues. First, it is concerned with the general notion of evidentiality, its deictic character, and with the interrelations between the domains of evidentiality and epistemic modality. Second, the book presents the results of the synchronic corpus-based analysis of the German evidential periphrastic constructions werden 'become' + infinitive, scheinen 'seem', drohen 'threaten', versprechen 'promise' + zu 'to'- infinitive, which constitute a paradigm for coding evidentiality in Present Day German. Third, the diachronic development of the evidential constructions is represented as a complex grammaticalization process, interacting with the development of modal constructions and leading to a highly differentiated category of modal and evidential distinctions in the grammar of German.
Perspectives on Evidentiality in Spanish
Perspectives on Evidentiality in Spanish - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Perspectives on Evidentiality in Spanish write by Carolina Figueras Bates. This book was released on 2018-07-24. Perspectives on Evidentiality in Spanish available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Evidentiality in communication is better investigated in delimited and recognizable contexts where the multiple levels of meaning in interactional practices are manifested. Taking this viewpoint, the present volume explores the interrelations between evidentials and textual genre in Spanish. Adopting a discursive perspective, all of the chapters examine how the functional category of evidentiality is brought into discourse, which set of linguistic strategies evidentiality makes explicit, what counts as evidence in certain contexts and in certain textual genres, and what particular pragmatic meanings these mechanisms acquire, invoke and project onto the on-going discourse. In particular, this book is concerned with the relationship between evidential expressions and the pragmatic meaning(s) triggered by those expressions, and the role of genre in shaping the evidential meanings. The volume is addressed to both theoretically and empirically minded scholars in the disciplines of Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistics, Communication Studies, and Psychology.
