CONTRASTIVE INTERLANGUAGE ANALYSIS OF EVIDENTIALITY IN PHD DISSERTATIONS
The present study investigates evidentiality in its broadest sense (Chafe 1986) in PhD dissertations as a genre of academic writing. For this purpose, Chafe’s taxonomy (1986), revised by Ifantidou (2001), has been used as a framework in order to analyze ...
M. Yıldız, Ü. Turan
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Indirect evidentiality and the expression of the speaker’s stance in Romanian
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 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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Les paramètres évidentiels, inférentiels et modaux appliqués à l’étude de must épistémique
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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Informational and relational functions of evidentiality in interaction
Using conversation data from the British National Corpus, this paper investigates the role played by relational functions in the use of evidentiality in interaction, and how such functions interact with the ‘core’ function of evidentiality: to signal ...
E. Söderqvist
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Some remarks on reported evidentiality in French and in Estonian: A contrastive approach
Among the multiple meanings of the French conditional, the marking of mediated information is generally pointed out in the studies treating this mood in French. In Estonian there is a specialized grammatical(ized) form for marking reported evidentiality –
Anu Treikelder, Reet Alas
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The Appearance of Turkish Grammatical Evidentials in Fictional Narratives and Their Translation into English: The Case of “My Name is Red” / Türkçe Dil Bilgisel Kanıtsalların Kurgusal Anlatıda Kullanımı ve İngilizceye Çevirisi: “Benim Adım Kırmızı” Örneği [PDF]
In this study, we investigate the lexical markers and the evidential strategies used for grammatical evidentials in the Turkish to English translations of Orhan Pamuk’s novel “My Name is Red”. The objective of the study is to determine the equivalents
Melike Üzüm* +2 more
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Evidentiality, egophoricity and engagement [PDF]
The expression of knowledge in language (i.e. epistemicity) consists of a number of distinct notions and proposed categories that are only partly related to a well explored forms like epistemic modals. The aim of the volume is therefore to contribute to the ongoing exploration of epistemic marking systems in lesser-documented languages from the ...
Bergqvist, Henrik, Kittilä, Seppo
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Reporting verbs associated with evidentiality in research article abstracts in applied linguistics and applied psycholinguistics [PDF]
The article presents a quantitative corpus-based study that aims to shed light on the frequency and distribution of reporting verbs (for instance, indicate, posit, etc.) associated with evidentiality that are found in research article abstracts (RAAs) in
Oleksandr Kapranov
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Notions of evidentiality and mirativity are related; however there are aspects of each of them which indicate that mirativity is a distinct conceptual category. One issue is how languages encode these categories.
Marilia de Nazare Ferreira-Silva
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