TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hennemann, Anja
T1  - The epistemic and evidential use of Spanish modal adverbs and verbs of cognitive attitude
JF  - Folia linguistica
N2  - This article deals with Spanish modal adverbs and verbs of cognitive attitude (Capelli 2007) and their epistemic and/or evidential use. The article is based upon the hypothesis that the study of the use of these linguistic devices has to be highly context-sensitive, as it is not always (only) the sentence level that has to be looked at if one wants to find out whether a certain adverb or verb of cognitive attitude is used evidentially or epistemically. In this article, therefore, the context is used to determine which meaning aspects of an element are encoded and which are contributed by the context. The data were retrieved from the daily newspaper El Pais. Nevertheless, the present study is not a quantitative one, but rather a qualitative study. My corpus analysis indicates that it is not possible to differentiate between the linguistic categories of evidentiality and epistemic modality in every case, although it indeed is possible in the vast majority of cases. In verbs of cognitive attitude, evidentiality and epistemic modality seem to be two interwoven categories, while concerning modal adverbs it is usually possible to separate the categories and to distinguish between the different subtypes of evidentiality such as visual evidence, hearsay and inference.
KW  - evidentiality
KW  - epistemic modality
KW  - Spanish modal adverbs
KW  - Spanish verbs of cognitive attitude
KW  - context sensitivity
Y1  - 2012
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1515/FLIN.2012.5
SN  - 0165-4004
VL  - 46
IS  - 1
SP  - 133
EP  - 170
PB  - De Gruyter
CY  - Berlin
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Haßler, Gerda
A1  - Böhm, Verónica Julia
A1  - Hennemann, Anja
ED  - Marín Arrese, Juana I.
ED  - Haßler, Gerda
ED  - Carretero, Marta
T1  - On the evidential use of English adverbials and their equivalents in Romance languages and Russian
BT  - A morpho-syntactic analysis
T2  - Evidentiality revisited : Cognitive grammar, functional and discourse-pragmatic perspectives (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series ; 271)
N2  - 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.
KW  - morphological structure
KW  - scope
KW  - adverbial locutions
KW  - evidentiality
KW  - epistemic modality
Y1  - 2017
SN  - 9789027256768
SN  - 9789027266149 (epub)
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.271.04boh
SN  - 0922-842X
VL  - 271
SP  - 87
EP  - 104
PB  - John Benjamins
CY  - Amsterdam, Philadelphia
ER  -