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Using corpora to track changing thought styles: evidentiality, epistemology, and Early Modern English and German scientific discourse [PDF]

open access: yesKalbotyra, 2017
Most research on evidentiality has focused on classifying evidential systems synchronically; meanwhile, diachronic studies on evidentiality seem to have focused on the development of specific items into evidential markers with little regard to discourse ...
Richard J. Whitt
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Evidentiality and Determination [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This paper investigates the semantic properties of the French determiner quelque. It is shown that quelque conveys inferential evidentiality, that is, it selects interpretations in which the speaker infers the proposition conveyed by the sentence that hosts the determiner.
Jayez, Jacques, Tovena, Lucia M.
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Patterns of evidentials use in dream narratives

open access: yesКогниция, коммуникация, дискурс, 2023
The article presents a study on evidentials use in dream reports collected from online dream journals. First, I discuss the relation between the categories of stance and evidentiality.
Valeriia Nikolaienko
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Indirect evidentiality and the expression of the speaker’s stance in Romanian

open access: yesStudia Linguistica Universitatis Cracoviensis, 2023
The study aims to emphasize how lexical particles and grammatical constructions express indirect evidentiality and the speaker’s stance in Romanian.
Cecilia Mihaela Popescu
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The Different Types of Interaction of the Modus Category of Evidentiality with Authorization and Approximation in the Mass Media Discourse

open access: yesВестник Самарского университета: История, педагогика, филология, 2021
The article deals with the specifics of interaction of evidentiality with the modus categories of authorization and approximation. The central aspect of the study is to identify the types of interaction of these categories in the mass media discourse ...
D. V. Kozlovsky
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Exploring Male and Female Voices through Epistemic Modality and Evidentiality in Some Modern English Travel Texts on the Canaries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This article describes authorial voice through evidential and epistemic sentential devices in a corpus of 19th and early 20th century travel texts. The corpus contains four works written by female travellers and the other four by men.
Alonso-Almeida, Francisco   +1 more
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Les paramètres évidentiels, inférentiels et modaux appliqués à l’étude de must épistémique

open access: yesAnglophonia, 2015
This study focuses on the modal and evidential values of must / devoir. The major difficulty is that evidentiality is not clearly grammaticalized neither in English nor French, unlike Amerindian languages such as Tuyuca or Bosavi.
Yves Bardière
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Evidential holism [PDF]

open access: yesPhilosophy Compass, 2017
Abstract Evidential holism begins with something like the claim that “it is only jointly as a theory that scientific statements imply their observable consequences.” This is the holistic claim that Elliott Sober tells us is an “unexceptional observation” (1993: 35).
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SENTENCE ADVERBIALS AND EVIDENTIALITY [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The paper deals with expressions of evidence (originating in perception, inference or reported information) and their role in sentence/utterance pragmatic modification.
Hirschová, Milada
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