TY - JOUR A1 - Haßler, Gerda T1 - Epistemic modality and evidentiality and their determination on a deictic basis : the case of Romance languages N2 - In recent years the category of evidentiality has come into use also for the description of Romance languages. This has been contingent on a change in its interpretation from a typological category to a semantic-pragmatic category, which allows an application to languages lacking specialised morphemes for the expression of evidentiality. In the following we will first describe the theoretical framework in which we use the category of evidentiality for the description of Romance languages. A key question to be elucidated here will be the determination of evidentiality as a deictic phenomenon. This will also be the basis for discussing the distinction between evidentiality and epistemic modality. Y1 - 2010 UR - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/31294 SN - 978-3-11-022396-5 ER -