@article{Hassler2018, author = {Haßler, Gerda}, title = {Evidential and epistemic sentence adverbs in Romance languages}, series = {Linguistik online}, volume = {92}, journal = {Linguistik online}, number = {5}, issn = {1615-3014}, doi = {10.13092/lo.92.4506}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-421822}, pages = {82 -- 98}, year = {2018}, abstract = {In this paper evidential and modal adverbs will be studied, such as French apparemment, {\´e}videmment, visiblement, Italian apparentemente, evidentemente, ovviamente, and Spanish aparentemente, evidentemente and visiblemente. The development of their signification will be discussed, including German adverbs like offensichtlich. In these means of expression, the functional-semantic categories evidentiality and epistemic modality seem to overlap: on the one hand, they are used if the state of affairs talked about cannot be verified, that is, if there is still a moment of insecurity concerning the transmitted information. Then adverbials with a special structure (preposition + article + nominal form of a verb) will be analysed, and we will examine if they behave in the same way.}, language = {en} } @incollection{Hassler2018, author = {Haßler, Gerda}, title = {Arbitrariness, Motivation and Value of the Linguistic Sign: Saussurean and Post-Saussurean Perspectives}, series = {The Cours de Linguistique G{\´e}n{\´e}rale Revisited: 1916-2016. Saussure et le Cours de linguistique g{\´e}n{\´e}rale cent ans apr{\`e}s}, booktitle = {The Cours de Linguistique G{\´e}n{\´e}rale Revisited: 1916-2016. Saussure et le Cours de linguistique g{\´e}n{\´e}rale cent ans apr{\`e}s}, editor = {Rico, Christophe and Kirtchuk, Pablo}, publisher = {Polis Institute Press}, address = {Jerusalem}, isbn = {978-9-65769-811-2}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {61 -- 87}, year = {2018}, abstract = {In 1916, three years after the death of Ferdinand de Saussure, the Cours de linguistique g{\´e}n{\´e}rale (CLG) was published in Geneva. This foundational work marked the beginning of a discipline that has profoundly influenced the development of the humanities ever since. What sources influenced the CLG? Do the main concepts of this seminal work have the same validity today as they did in 1916? How has the recent development of language sciences influenced its reception? How does this text account for meaning and communication within the context of speech (parole)? In order to explore these questions, one hundred years after the publication of Ferdinand de Saussure's seminal work on General Linguistics, Polis--The Jerusalem Institute of Languages and Humanities held an interdisciplinary conference that gathered 14 international specialists from various disciplines: general linguistics, pragmatics, philology, dialectology, translation studies, terminology, and philosophy. The first section of this work reassesses the sources and further influence of the CLG on modern linguistics. The book's second part discusses some of the main concepts and dichotomies of the CLG (constitution of the linguistic method, arbitrariness of sign, main dichotomies), under the light of both the original manuscripts and recent linguistic developments (influence of dialectology or translation studies). The third and last part handles the pragmatic and semantic dimensions of language, suggesting new avenues of reflection that could not yet have been fully taken into account within the CLG itself. Uniting 14 scholarly articles, together with an introduction, an index locorum and a collective bibliography, this volume hopes to encourage readers with its reappraisal and reinterpretation of Saussure's ground-breaking work and thus contribute to the future development of linguistics and humanities.}, language = {en} } @incollection{HasslerBoehmHennemann2017, author = {Haßler, Gerda and B{\"o}hm, Ver{\´o}nica Julia and Hennemann, Anja}, title = {On the evidential use of English adverbials and their equivalents in Romance languages and Russian}, series = {Evidentiality revisited : Cognitive grammar, functional and discourse-pragmatic perspectives (Pragmatics \& Beyond New Series ; 271)}, volume = {271}, booktitle = {Evidentiality revisited : Cognitive grammar, functional and discourse-pragmatic perspectives (Pragmatics \& Beyond New Series ; 271)}, editor = {Mar{\´i}n Arrese, Juana I. and Haßler, Gerda and Carretero, Marta}, publisher = {John Benjamins}, address = {Amsterdam, Philadelphia}, isbn = {9789027256768}, issn = {0922-842X}, doi = {10.1075/pbns.271.04boh}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {87 -- 104}, year = {2017}, abstract = {The present study investigates the use of equivalents of the English adverbials seemingly and apparently with a specific morphological structure in Romance languages and Russian, i.e. Spanish al parecer, Portuguese ao parecer and ao que parece, French avoir l'air de, Italian all'apparenza and in apparenza as well as Russian по-видимому. The underlying hypothesis is that the function and syntactic behaviour of these adverbial locutions are motivated by their morphological composition. It is to investigate whether the adverbials may be used sentence-initially, parenthetically, as an adverbial with broad or narrow scope or as a component of a modalised predication. The adverbial locutions are treated as means of expression where evidentiality and epistemic modality represent overlapping functional-semantic categories.}, language = {en} } @incollection{Hassler2016, author = {Haßler, Gerda}, title = {Deg{\´e}rando's three prize essays and the shift in linguistic thought at the turn of the 19th century}, series = {History of Linguistics 2014 : selected papers from the 13th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS XIII), Vila Real, Portugal, 25-29 August 2014 (Studies in the History of the Language Sciences ; 126)}, booktitle = {History of Linguistics 2014 : selected papers from the 13th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS XIII), Vila Real, Portugal, 25-29 August 2014 (Studies in the History of the Language Sciences ; 126)}, publisher = {John Benjamins Publishing Company}, address = {Amsterdam, Philadelphia}, isbn = {978-90-272-4617-2}, issn = {0304-0720}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {149 -- 160}, year = {2016}, abstract = {Deg{\´e}rando started out from the views of the French ideologists on the relationship of language and thought, but increasingly distanced himself from them. This is already evident based on the choice of reference authors and also on the increasing emphasis on empirical research. His prize essays reflect the fundamental changes in linguistic thought during the late 18th century. He was successful in the competition of the Institut National (1797/1799) and with another essay at the Berlin Academy (1802). His main argument against Condillac and the ideologists is that empirical knowledge does not depend on signs. Therefore, the development of better languages will not improve this kind of human knowledge.}, language = {en} } @misc{Hassler2015, author = {Haßler, Gerda}, title = {Evidentiality and the expression of speaker's stance in Romance languages and German}, series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe}, journal = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe}, number = {138}, issn = {1866-8380}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-404492}, pages = {28}, year = {2015}, abstract = {In recent years, the category of evidentiality has also come into use for the description of Romance languages and of German. 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. We consider evidentiality to be a structural dimension of grammar, the values of which are expressed by types of constructions that code the source of information which a speaker imparts. If we look at the situation in Romance languages and in German, drawing a boundary between epistemic modality and evidentiality presents problems that are difficult to solve. Adding markers of the source of the speaker's knowledge often limits the degree of responsibility of the speaker for the content of the utterance. Evidential adverbs are a frequently used means of marking the source of the speaker's knowledge. The evidential meaning is generalised to marking any source of knowledge, what can be regarded as a result of a process of pragmaticalisation. The use of certain means which also carry out evidential markings can even contribute to the blurring of the different kinds of evidentiality. German also has modal verbs which in conjunction with the perfect tense of the verb have a predominantly evidential use (sollen and wollen). But even here the evidential marking is not without influence on the modality of the utterance. The Romance languages, however, do not have such specialised verbs for expressing evidentiality in certain contexts. To do this, they mark evidentiality - often context bound - by verb forms such as the conditional and the imperfect tense. This article shall contrast the different architectures used in expressing evidentiality in German and in the Romance languages.}, language = {en} } @article{Hassler2015, author = {Haßler, Gerda}, title = {Evidentiality and the expression of speaker's stance in Romance languages and German}, series = {Discourse studies : an interdisciplinary journal for the study of text and talk}, volume = {17}, journal = {Discourse studies : an interdisciplinary journal for the study of text and talk}, number = {2}, publisher = {Sage Publ.}, address = {London}, issn = {1461-4456}, doi = {10.1177/1461445614564522}, pages = {182 -- 209}, year = {2015}, abstract = {In recent years, the category of evidentiality has also come into use for the description of Romance languages and of German. 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. We consider evidentiality to be a structural dimension of grammar, the values of which are expressed by types of constructions that code the source of information which a speaker imparts. If we look at the situation in Romance languages and in German, drawing a boundary between epistemic modality and evidentiality presents problems that are difficult to solve. Adding markers of the source of the speaker's knowledge often limits the degree of responsibility of the speaker for the content of the utterance. Evidential adverbs are a frequently used means of marking the source of the speaker's knowledge. The evidential meaning is generalised to marking any source of knowledge, what can be regarded as a result of a process of pragmaticalisation. The use of certain means which also carry out evidential markings can even contribute to the blurring of the different kinds of evidentiality. German also has modal verbs which in conjunction with the perfect tense of the verb have a predominantly evidential use (sollen and wollen). But even here the evidential marking is not without influence on the modality of the utterance. The Romance languages, however, do not have such specialised verbs for expressing evidentiality in certain contexts. To do this, they mark evidentiality - often context bound - by verb forms such as the conditional and the imperfect tense. This article shall contrast the different architectures used in expressing evidentiality in German and in the Romance languages.}, language = {en} } @article{Hassler2014, author = {Haßler, Gerda}, title = {Evidentiality and the expression of speaker's stance in Romance languages and German}, series = {Discourse Studies : an interdisciplinary journal for the study of text and talk}, volume = {17}, journal = {Discourse Studies : an interdisciplinary journal for the study of text and talk}, number = {2}, publisher = {Sage Publications}, address = {London}, issn = {1461-4456}, doi = {10.1177/1461445614564522}, pages = {182 -- 209}, year = {2014}, abstract = {In recent years, the category of evidentiality has also come into use for the description of Romance languages and of German. 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. We consider evidentiality to be a structural dimension of grammar, the values of which are expressed by types of constructions that code the source of information which a speaker imparts. If we look at the situation in Romance languages and in German, drawing a boundary between epistemic modality and evidentiality presents problems that are difficult to solve. Adding markers of the source of the speaker's knowledge often limits the degree of responsibility of the speaker for the content of the utterance. Evidential adverbs are a frequently used means of marking the source of the speaker's knowledge. The evidential meaning is generalised to marking any source of knowledge, what can be regarded as a result of a process of pragmaticalisation. The use of certain means which also carry out evidential markings can even contribute to the blurring of the different kinds of evidentiality. German also has modal verbs which in conjunction with the perfect tense of the verb have a predominantly evidential use (sollen and wollen). But even here the evidential marking is not without influence on the modality of the utterance. The Romance languages, however, do not have such specialised verbs for expressing evidentiality in certain contexts. To do this, they mark evidentiality - often context bound - by verb forms such as the conditional and the imperfect tense. This article shall contrast the different architectures used in expressing evidentiality in German and in the Romance languages.}, language = {en} } @article{Hassler2012, author = {Haßler, Gerda}, title = {Introduction}, isbn = {978-3-89323-140-9}, year = {2012}, language = {en} } @article{Hassler2011, author = {Haßler, Gerda}, title = {Acknowlegements}, isbn = {978-90-272-4606-6}, year = {2011}, language = {en} } @article{Hassler2010, author = {Haßler, Gerda}, title = {Epistemic modality and evidentiality and their determination on a deictic basis : the case of Romance languages}, isbn = {978-3-11-022396-5}, year = {2010}, abstract = {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.}, language = {en} }