TY - JOUR A1 - Haßler, Gerda T1 - Evidentiality and the expression of speaker’s stance in Romance languages and German JF - Discourse Studies : an interdisciplinary journal for the study of text and talk N2 - 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. KW - Adverbs KW - evidentiality KW - modal verbs KW - modality KW - pragmaticalisation Y1 - 2015 UR - http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1461445614564522 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/1461445614564522 SN - 1461-4456 SN - 1461-7080 VL - 17 IS - 2 SP - 182 EP - 209 PB - Sage Publications CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Haßler, Gerda ED - McElvenny, James T1 - ‘Communicating the past to the present’ BT - Is anachronism inevitable? Desirable? JF - History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences KW - anachronism KW - conceptual history KW - Ferdinand de Saussure KW - linguistic historiography KW - Plato´s Cratylus KW - salon KW - word order Y1 - 2015 UR - http://hiphilangsci.net/2015/06/03/salon-anachronism-in-linguistic-historiography SN - 2366-2409 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Haßler, Gerda T1 - Degérando’s three prize essays and the shift in linguistic thought at the turn of the 19th century T2 - 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) N2 - Degérando 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. Y1 - 2016 SN - 978-90-272-4617-2 SN - 0304-0720 SP - 149 EP - 160 PB - John Benjamins Publishing Company CY - Amsterdam, Philadelphia ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Haßler, Gerda T1 - Indicative verb forms as means of expressing modality in romance languages Y1 - 2008 SN - 978-1-443-84059-0 ER - 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 SN - 978-3-11-022396-5 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Haßler, Gerda T1 - Epistemic modality and evidentiality and their determination on a deictic basis N2 - It has often been pointed out that there is some overlap between epistemic modality and evidentiality (Chafe & Nichols 1986, Cornillie 2007, De Haan 1999, Dendale & Tasmowski 2001, Plungian 2001, Squartini 2004). In this paper I would like to offer several reflections about the necessity of drawing a boundary between modality and evidentiality. Starting from the typological category of evidentiality - extended here for use in pragmatic studies - I will then explore demarcation problems in Romance languages, which lack grammaticalized forms for expressing evidentiality. The underlying premise of this paper is that evidentiality as marker of the origin of the speaker's knowledge stands in relation to the speaker's pragmatic stance. Because the perspective of the speaker is thus incorporated into the utterance, it seems appropriate to analyse the applicability of the deictic category. Finally, under the aspect of deixis, I shall attempt a demarcation between evidentiality and modality. Y1 - 2010 SN - 978-3-11-023433-6 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Haßler, Gerda T1 - Acknowlegements Y1 - 2011 SN - 978-90-272-4606-6 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Haßler, Gerda T1 - Nerlich, B., Semantic theories in Europe 1830 - 1930; Amsterdam, Benjamins, 1992 BT - Semantic theories in Europe 1830 - 1930 Y1 - 1994 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Haßler, Gerda T1 - Texts of reference and serial texts in the constitution of a notional paradigm : the example of the French ideologues Y1 - 2007 SN - 978-90-272-4601-1 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Haßler, Gerda T1 - Analogy : the history of a concept and a term from the 17th to the 19th century Y1 - 2007 SN - 978-90-272-4603-5 ER -