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Introduction
(2012)
The focus of this paper is on the modal uses of verb forms and the contribution of shifters (aujourd"hui "today", ici "here") to polyphony. The alternation between indicative and subjunctive and the modal use of the imperfect will be studied from a pragmatic point of view. The imperfect enables the opening of another speaker deixis, without requiring the naming of the other deictic center. Imperfect verb forms can indicate double deixis, allowing the speaker to refer to a source of the communicated information without, however, naming this source.
Introduction
(2008)
Acknowlegements
(2011)
Einleitung
(2008)
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.
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.
Identität durch Sprache : der Diskurs zur Apologie der Vernakularsprachen bis zum 18. Jahrhundert
(2011)
Semiotique et révolution : critique dune explication sémiotique de la continuité des Lumières
(2008)
Prefacio
(2008)
Laudation zur Verleihung des Doktogrades ehrenhalber an Herrn Prof. em. Dr. phil. Helmut Lüdke
(2008)
Gustav Gröber
(1996)
XXIIe Congrès international de Linguistique et Philologie romanes, Brüssel, 23. bis 29. Juli 1998
(1998)
Die Markierung der Herkunft des Sprecherwissens : ein grammatisches und pragmatisches Problem
(1998)
Sprachtheorie der idéologues
(1999)