Epistemic complementizers: a cross-linguistic survey

Boye, Kasper; Lier, Eva van; Brink, Eva Theilgaard

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“…Hence, als 'as' in Dutch marks similarity (Reinarz et al 2016). It does not come as a surprise then that the statement introduced by the complementizer alsof 'as if' will decrease the potential of the embedded clause to serve as the speaker's main proposition (Boye and Harder 2009;Boye et al 2015). Rather, the main proposition will be that something looks like something else, and no evidential interpretation arises.…”

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From visual perception to inferential evidentiality1

Faber¹,

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Hoop³

2022

Nederlandse Taalkunde

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Many languages use verbs of perception to express evidentiality. This paper studies the evidential use of the object-oriented perception verb eruitzien 'look' in Dutch. The results of a Twitter corpus study show that, whereas ziet eruit alsof 'looks as if' occasionally comes with an evidential interpretation, the construction ziet ernaar uit 'looks like' predominantly expresses inferential evidentiality. A diachronic investigation shows how the evidential reading of this construction developed from the object-oriented use of the verb, through a stage in which the construction is used to mark a prediction. This predictive reading, which is still available in present-day Dutch, is not evidential. It does not indicate a speaker has supporting evidence for a factual claim, but rather they have evidence for something they expect to become a fact in the near future. Our diachronic study also reveals how another construction, with a subject-oriented verb (eruit) zien

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“…Some generative approaches regard complementizers as bound morphemes (e.g.,Roberts and Roussou 2003: 22-23).16 Cf.Hansen, Letuchiy, and Błaszczyk (2016: 203-204) on Russian, Polish and Bulgarian, from a more comprehensive perspective cf Boye, van Lier, and Theilgaard Brink (2015). Kehayov and Boye (2016b).…”

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Clausal complementation in South Slavic

Nikolić

2022

Canadian Slavonic Papers

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This volume presents a collection of articles that share a focus on South Slavic languages and clausal complementation. They offer insights on this topic from various perspectives, taking up issues relevant not only for specialists of (South) Slavic languages, but also for the broader linguistic community interested in clause combining, areal linguistics, language contact, diachronic syntax and/or corpus linguistics. In their entirety, the studies assembled here cover the entire linguistic geography of South Slavic, including exclave varieties in Italy as well as contact with non-Slavic languages such as Albanian and Hungarian.The volume arose from the workshop "Variation in space and time: clausal complementation in South Slavic," which was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and organized by the editors on March 17-19, 2016, at the University of Zurich. Most of the contributors to this volume were also participants in that workshop. We thank every author for their continued motivation to contribute to this joint endeavor, which, as we hope, will help establish directions for the study of clause combining, in particular of clausal complementation, in Slavic languages in a modern framework. We are also obliged to an anonymous reviewer who provided thoroughgoing and valuable comments on every article and to Giulia Morra for her assistance in creating the index. Moreover, we thank the publishing house De Gruyter and, in particular, the editors in charge of the TiLSM series for taking our volume on board.

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“…. Denne samplings-praksis er i overensstemmelse med andre typologiske undersøgelser, fxBoye et al (2015) N y F O R S k N I Ng I gRA mmATI k, vOL. 25 (2018) …”

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Rækkefølgen af valensændrende affikser i polysyntetiske sprog

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This study examines the ordering of applicative, antipassive, and causative verbal affixes in comparison to the verbal root in polysynthetic languages. Previous studies have found strong crosslinguistic ordering tendencies pertaining to verbal affixes, but so far no large scale studies of the ordering of valency-changing affixes have been conducted. Based on a genetically and geographically stratified sample of 50 polysynthetic languages, this paper presents preliminary results on the ordering of applicatives, antipassives, and causatives. Although the study does not find clear results, it provides a theoretically based hypothesis on the ordering of valency-changing affixes and identifies problems with working with a small sample, suggesting that future studies include more data.

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Epistemic complementizers: a cross-linguistic survey

Cited by 9 publications

References 20 publications

From visual perception to inferential evidentiality1

From visual perception to inferential evidentiality1

Clausal complementation in South Slavic

Rækkefølgen af valensændrende affikser i polysyntetiske sprog

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