On the evidential use of English adverbials and their equivalents in Romance languages and Russian
- 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.
Author details: | Gerda HaßlerORCiDGND, Verónica Julia BöhmORCiDGND, Anja HennemannORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.271.04boh |
ISBN: | 9789027256768 |
ISBN: | 9789027266149 (epub) |
ISSN: | 0922-842X |
Title of parent work (English): | Evidentiality revisited : Cognitive grammar, functional and discourse-pragmatic perspectives (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series ; 271) |
Subtitle (German): | A morpho-syntactic analysis |
Publisher: | John Benjamins |
Place of publishing: | Amsterdam, Philadelphia |
Editor(s): | Juana I. Marín Arrese, Gerda Haßler, Marta Carretero |
Publication type: | Part of a Book |
Language: | English |
Year of first publication: | 2017 |
Publication year: | 2017 |
Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
Release date: | 2017/03/23 |
Tag: | adverbial locutions; epistemic modality; evidentiality; morphological structure; scope |
Volume: | 271 |
First page: | 87 |
Last Page: | 104 |
Organizational units: | Philosophische Fakultät / Institut für Romanistik |
DDC classification: | 4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik |
4 Sprache / 44 Französisch, romanische Sprachen allgemein / 440 Romanische Sprachen; Französisch | |
License (German): | Keine öffentliche Lizenz: Unter Urheberrechtsschutz |