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Evidentials are syntax-sensitive: The view from Bangla
Glossa, 2018 This paper studies an evidential in Bangla which changes its evidential flavor based on its syntactic position. Forging novel connections with the literature on finiteness, indexical shift, and complementizer agreement, this paper demonstrates how ...
Diti Bhadra
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Evidentiality in Spoken Catalan. The Evidential Marker "diu que"
Anuari de Filologia. Estudis de Lingüística, 2020 This study deals with an Catalan evidential marker without a written tradition, but mainly an oral one: diu que (‘(s)he.says.that’, ‘it is said that’), a Romance correlate for dizque (Spanish) or dice che (Italian) (cf. Travis 2006, Cruschina 2015, Alcázar 2018).
Jordi M. Antolí Martínez +1 more
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Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación, 2023 The current demands placed on scientists to increase public awareness of their findings involves recontextualizing highly technical research to be understood by diversified audiences.
Rosa Lorés
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Philosophy 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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Semantics and Pragmatics, 2014 This paper discusses three potential varieties of update: updates to the common ground, structuring updates, and updates that introduce discourse referents. These different types of update are used to model different aspects of natural language phenomena.
Sarah E Murray
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#Soundwordsmatter: Epistemic modality and evidentiality in Twitter discourse on racism
Dive-In, 2022 This paper presents the results of a corpus-based pilot study aiming to investigate whether and to what extent epistemicity and evidentiality contribute to the degree of assertiveness of discourse on Twitter.
Claudia Borghetti, Ana Pano Alamán
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Modal vs. deictic evidentials in ʔayʔaǰuθəm (Comox-Sliammon)
, 2022 In this paper, we present novel data from ʔayʔaǰuθəm (a.k.a. Comox-Sliammon; an understudied Salish language) that challenge both the claim that all evidentials are epistemic modals (Matthewson 2012) and the claim that evidentials and modals are distinct,
Huijsmans, Marianne +1 more
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Kalbotyra, 2017 The paper pivots around the different roles of evidentials and the different ways in which evidence is represented in the discourse of popular and academic history, thereby exploring the dynamics of both genres from a discourse analytical perspective ...
Marina Bondi, Annalisa Sezzi
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Exploring Metadiscourse Markers in Master Thesis Abstracts of TEFL Students: A Case of the University of Mazandaran [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 2021 MMetadiscourse as a self-reflective linguistic device plays an important role in both making a coherent academic text and interacting with readers. Using a sequential mixed method design, the present study investigated the use of metadiscourse markers in
Effatsadat Moafi +2 more
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Building a semantic map: top-down versus bottom-up approaches
Linguistic Discovery, 2010 This paper contrasts two methods for constructing semantic maps: the top-down model and the bottom-up model. It is argued that the bottom-up approach can be illuminating in solving long-standing issues.
Ferdinand de Haan
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