TY - JOUR A1 - Arslan, Seçkin A1 - Bamyaci, Elif A1 - Bastiaanse, Roelien T1 - A characterization of verb use in Turkish agrammatic narrative speech JF - Philosophische Rundschau N2 - This study investigates the characteristics of narrative-speech production and the use of verbs in Turkish agrammatic speakers (n = 10) compared to non-brain-damaged controls (n = 10). To elicit narrative-speech samples, personal interviews and storytelling tasks were conducted. Turkish has a large and regular verb inflection paradigm where verbs are inflected for evidentiality (i.e. direct versus indirect evidence available to the speaker). Particularly, we explored the general characteristics of the speech samples (e.g. utterance length) and the uses of lexical, finite and non-finite verbs and direct and indirect evidentials. The results show that speech rate is slow, verbs per utterance are lower than normal and the verb diversity is reduced in the agrammatic speakers. Verb inflection is relatively intact; however, a trade-off pattern between inflection for direct evidentials and verb diversity is found. The implications of the data are discussed in connection with narrative-speech production studies on other languages. KW - Agrammatism KW - discourse-linking KW - finiteness KW - evidentiality KW - narrative speech KW - Turkish KW - verbs Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3109/02699206.2016.1144224 SN - 0269-9206 SN - 1464-5076 VL - 30 SP - 449 EP - 469 PB - J. C. B. Mohr CY - Philadelphia ER - TY - THES A1 - Schulze, Carsta T1 - Der Gebrauch des Perfekts im Spanischen und Deutschen T1 - The use of the present perfect in Spanish and German BT - eine kontrastive Analyse BT - a contrastive analysis N2 - In dieser Bachelorarbeit werden die Bedeutung und die Gebrauchsweisen des Vergangenheitstempus Perfekt in der deutschen und spanischen Sprache kontrastiv untersucht. Aufgrund des Zusammenwirkens der funktional-semantischen Kategorien Temporalität, Aspektualität und Modalität wird der Perfektgebrauch hinsichtlich dieser Kategorien analysiert. Es wird angenommen, dass sich das Perfekt im Spanischen und Deutschen nicht nur in Bezug auf seine temporalen und aspektuellen Werte, sondern auch hinsichtlich seiner modal-evidentiellen Werte und Ausdrucksweisen unterscheidet. Ziel dieses Beitrags ist es, die spezifischen temporalen und aspektuellen Bedeutungen dieses Vergangenheitstempus in der jeweiligen Sprache herauszustellen, kontrastiv zu betrachten und zu zeigen, inwiefern Perfektformen als Evidentialitätsmarker fungieren können. Der modal-evidentiellen Bedeutung des Perfekts kommt in dieser Arbeit eine zentrale Rolle zu, da insbesondere hinsichtlich der deutschen Perfekt-Konstruktionen noch wenige Forschungsansätze vorliegen. Die modalen und evidentiellen Bedeutungen des Perfekts werden in beiden Sprachen in der Schriftsprache unter Einbezug der Erkenntnisse der RAE (2009), Wachtmeister-Bermúdez (2005) und Diewald (2011) diskutiert und anhand von Beispielen aus spanischen und deutschen Pressetexten des CREA sowie der Zeit Online und Süddeutsche Zeitung belegt. Als Ergebnis dieser Untersuchung lässt sich feststellen, dass das Perfekt in beiden Sprachen als Evidentialitätsmarker dienen und verschiedene Arten von Evidenz markieren kann. Die Relevanz der kontrastiven Betrachtung kommt in zwei signifikanten Forschungsbereichen zum Tragen: zum Einen bei der Übersetzung, da die temporalen, aspektuellen und modal-evidentiellen Werte des Perfekts in der jeweiligen Sprache beachtet werden müssen und zum Anderen in der Fremdsprachendidaktik, da das Perfekt verschiedene Stellenwerte in den einzelnen Verbalsystemen einnimmt. N2 - In this bachelor’s thesis, the significance and the uses of the present perfect tense in German and Spanish are comparatively examined. Due to the interaction of the functional-semantic categories temporality, aspectuality, and modality, the use of the present perfect is analyzed with respect to these categories. It is assumed that the present perfect in Spanish and German does not only differ in terms of its temporal and aspectual values, but also regarding its modal-evidential values and forms of expression. This contribution aims at highlighting the specific temporal and aspectual meanings of the present perfect tense in the respective language by comparatively analyzing them and showing to what extent the present perfect forms may function as evidential markers. The modal-evidential meaning of the present perfect plays an important role, particularly with respect to the present perfect forms in German, since there has been little research in this field. In both languages, the modal and evidential meanings of the present perfect are discussed in the written language by including the results found by RAE (2009), Wachtmeister-Bermúdez (2005), and Diewald (2011) and analyzing examples of Spanish and German press releases from CREA, Zeit Online, and Süddeutsche Zeitung. As a result of this analysis, it can be said that the present perfect may serve as an evidential marker in both languages and mark different types of evidence. The relevance of the contrastive approach is particularly pronounced in two important research areas: firstly, in the translation process as the temporal, aspectual, and modal-evidential values of the present perfect must be taken into account in the respective language, and, secondly, in foreign language didactics as the present perfect takes up different positions in the individual verbal systems. KW - Perfekt KW - Gebrauch KW - Temporalität KW - Aspektualität KW - Modalität KW - Evidentialität KW - present perfect KW - use KW - temporality KW - aspectuality KW - modality KW - evidentiality Y1 - 2015 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-394850 ER - 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 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/1461445614564522 SN - 1461-4456 SN - 1461-7080 VL - 17 IS - 2 SP - 182 EP - 209 PB - Sage Publ. CY - London ER - TY - GEN A1 - Haßler, Gerda T1 - Evidentiality and the expression of speaker’s stance in Romance languages and German T2 - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe 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. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe - 138 KW - adverbs KW - evidentiality KW - modal verbs KW - modality KW - pragmaticalisation Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-404492 SN - 1866-8380 IS - 138 ER - 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 - GEN A1 - Arslan, Seçkin A1 - Bastiaanse, Roelien A1 - Felser, Claudia T1 - Looking at the evidence in visual world BT - eye-movements reveal how bilingual and monolingual Turkish speakers process grammatical evidentiality T2 - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe N2 - This study presents pioneering data on how adult early bilinguals (heritage speakers) and late bilingual speakers of Turkish and German process grammatical evidentiality in a visual world setting in comparison to monolingual speakers of Turkish. Turkish marks evidentiality, the linguistic reference to information source, through inflectional affixes signaling either direct (-DI) or indirect (-mls) evidentiality. We conducted an eyetracking-during-listening experiment where participants were given access to visual 'evidence' supporting the use of either a direct or indirect evidential form. The behavioral results indicate that the monolingual Turkish speakers comprehended direct and indirect evidential scenarios equally well. In contrast, both late and early bilinguals were less accurate and slower to respond to direct than to indirect evidentials. The behavioral results were also reflected in the proportions of looks data. That is, both late and early bilinguals fixated less frequently on the target picture in the direct than in the indirect evidential condition while the monolinguals showed no difference between these conditions. Taken together, our results indicate reduced sensitivity to the semantic and pragmatic function of direct evidential forms in both late and early bilingual speakers, suggesting a simplification of the Turkish evidentiality system in Turkish heritage grammars. We discuss our findings with regard to theories of incomplete acquisition and first language attrition. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 408 KW - evidentiality KW - information source KW - inference KW - witnessing KW - visual world paradigm KW - eye-movements KW - Turkish-German bilingualism Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-406307 IS - 408 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Arslan, Seçkin A1 - Bastiaanse, Roelien A1 - Felser, Claudia T1 - Looking at the evidence in visual world: eye-movements reveal how bilingual and monolingual Turkish speakers process grammatical evidentiality JF - Frontiers in psychology N2 - This study presents pioneering data on how adult early bilinguals (heritage speakers) and late bilingual speakers of Turkish and German process grammatical evidentiality in a visual world setting in comparison to monolingual speakers of Turkish. Turkish marks evidentiality, the linguistic reference to information source, through inflectional affixes signaling either direct (-DI) or indirect (-mls) evidentiality. We conducted an eyetracking-during-listening experiment where participants were given access to visual 'evidence' supporting the use of either a direct or indirect evidential form. The behavioral results indicate that the monolingual Turkish speakers comprehended direct and indirect evidential scenarios equally well. In contrast, both late and early bilinguals were less accurate and slower to respond to direct than to indirect evidentials. The behavioral results were also reflected in the proportions of looks data. That is, both late and early bilinguals fixated less frequently on the target picture in the direct than in the indirect evidential condition while the monolinguals showed no difference between these conditions. Taken together, our results indicate reduced sensitivity to the semantic and pragmatic function of direct evidential forms in both late and early bilingual speakers, suggesting a simplification of the Turkish evidentiality system in Turkish heritage grammars. We discuss our findings with regard to theories of incomplete acquisition and first language attrition. KW - evidentiality KW - information source KW - inference KW - witnessing KW - visual world paradigm KW - eye-movements KW - Turkish-German bilingualism Y1 - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01387 SN - 1664-1078 VL - 6 PB - Frontiers Research Foundation CY - Lausanne 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 - TY - JOUR A1 - Arslan, Seckin A1 - De Kok, Dörte A1 - Bastiaanse, Roelien T1 - Processing grammatical evidentiality and time reference in Turkish heritage and monolingual speakers JF - Bilingualism : language and cognition. KW - evidentiality KW - time reference KW - heritage language speaker KW - Turkish-Dutch bilingualism Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1017/S136672891500084X SN - 1366-7289 SN - 1469-1841 VL - 20 SP - 457 EP - 472 PB - Cambridge Univ. Press CY - New York ER - 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 -