Evidential adjectives in Lithuanian academic discourse

Ruskan, Anna

doi:10.15388/klbt.2012.7663

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“…Būtent šie reiškiniai, pastaruoju metu plačiai analizuojami norint atskleisti autoriaus pozicijos raiškos ypatumus įvairiakalbiuose akademiniuose tekstuose, lietuvių kalbotyroje kol kas mažai tyrinėti. Nepaisant to, šalia darbų (Bitinienė 1983(Bitinienė , 2005(Bitinienė , 2009Župerka 1983;Koženiauskienė 2005;Alaunienė 2005;Linkevičienė 2009), kuriuose gana fragmentiškai nagrinėjami akademinio diskurso turinio ir struktūros aspektai, mokslinio stiliaus ir jo intertekstualumo klausimai, jau yra išleista keletas studijų (Ryvitytė 2005(Ryvitytė , 2008Damošius 2007;Šinkūnienė 2011Ruskan 2012), kuriose analizuojama vertinimo ir autoriaus pozicijos raiška lietuvių mokslo kalboje bei jos specifika, gretinant ją su anglų kalba.…”

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Autoriaus pozicijos adverbialai ir adverbializacija lietuvių mokslo kalboje

Smetona¹,

Usonienė²

2012

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Straipsnio tikslas parodyti, kodėl reikėtų ir kodėl galima būtų skirti semantinę-funkcinę adverbialų klasę lietuvių kalboje. Pastaroji nėra tapatinama su prieveiksmiais kaip tradicine kalbos dalimi gramatikoje ar aplinkybėmis kaip tradicine sakinio dalimi sintaksėje. Be to, nėra kvestionuojamas aptariamų kalbos reiškinių statusas kalbos dalių ar sakinio dalių požiūriu. Siūloma atkreipti dėmesį į kalboje objektyviai egzistuojančią straipsnyje aptariamų raiškos priemonių aiškinimo įvairovę. Jų semantinė-funkcinė charakteristika netelpa į prieveiksmių (DLKG 1996, 422-429; Valeckienė 1998, 169-170), aplinkybių (DLKG 1996, 527-553; Valeckienė 1998, 55-66) bei modifikuojamųjų dalelyčių (Valeckienė 1998, 191) reikšmių ir tipų klasifikaciją. Šios semantinės-funkcinės klasės aptarimas remiasi autoriaus pozicijos raiškos tyrimu lietuvių mokslo kalboje1. Visi kalbos duomenys surinkti iš Lietuvių mokslo kalbos tekstyno (Corpus Academicum Lithuanicum: http://coralit.lt/). Darbe trumpai apžvelgiami akademinio diskurso ypatumai ir autoriaus pozicijos vaidmuo užmezgant ir plėtojant dialogą su skaitytoju. Epizodiškai gretinami adverbialinių autoriaus pozicijos sąvokos apimties ir jos raiškos būdų ypatumai kitose kalbose. Pateikiama autoriaus pozicijos adverbialų semantinė klasifikacija ir jų raiškos priemonių įvairovė. Labai trumpai aptariama adverbializacijos proceso esmė ir jo sąsajos su gramatikalizacija bei intersubjektyvumu.

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Autoriaus pozicijos adverbialai ir adverbializacija lietuvių mokslo kalboje

Smetona¹,

Usonienė²

2012

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“…The present study has been carried out by applying corpus based-methodology, which has been an effective tool in describing the use of evidential and epistemic markers in Germanic (Nuyts 2001;Simon-Vandenbergen, Aijmer 2007), Romance (Cornillie 2010), Slavic (Wiemer, Kampf 2012) and Baltic languages (Usonienė, Šolienė 2010;Šinkūnienė 2012;Smetona, Usonienė 2012;Ruskan 2012;Chojnicka 2012 Before the qualitative and quantitative analysis proper was carried out, the data retrieved from the corpora had to be selected manually. The study includes the use of akivaizdžiai 'evidently', aiškiai 'clearly', ryškiai 'visibly/clearly' and tariamai 'allegedly/supposedly' as sentence adverbials and excludes their use as predication adverbials denoting manner.…”

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Evidential adverbials in Lithuanian: a corpus-based study

Ruskan¹

2015

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The present study examines the functional distribution of the adverbials akivaizdžiai 'evidently', aiškiai 'clearly', ryškiai 'visibly/clearly', tariamai 'allegedly/supposedly' and aišku 'clearly/of course' in Lithuanian fiction and academic discourse. The aim of the study is to identify the evidential and/or pragmatic functions of perception and communication-based adverbials which can be traced synchronically to different syntactic environment (a predication manner adverbial and a CTP clause). The paper examines the frequency of these adverbials, their position, scope, functions, cooccurrence with argumentative markers, word class (adverb or non-agreeing adjective) and the type of discourse they occur in. The research is conducted by applying a corpusbased methodology and the data are obtained from the Corpus of the Contemporary Lithuanian Language, namely from the subcorpus of fiction, and the Corpus of Academic Lithuanian.The perception-based adverbials akivaizdžiai 'evidently', aiškiai 'clearly', ryškiai 'clearly/visibly' and aišku 'clearly/of course' denote inferences drawn from perceptual and conceptual evidence and contribute to persuasive authorial argumentation, while the communication-based adverbial tariamai 'allegedly/supposedly' functions as a hearsay marker. The latter may also be used as an epistemic marker which refers to unreal or imagined situations. In contexts of common knowledge, the adverbial aišku 'clearly/of course' acquires interactional and textual functions and thus reveals traces of pragmaticalisation. In academic discourse, it signals interaction with the addressee and links units of discourse, while in fiction it functions as a speech act modifier in a variety of emotive contexts. The pragmaticalisation of aišku 'clearly/of course' is also marked by its high frequency, positional mobility (initial, medial, final) and scopal variability (clausal, phrasal). Alongside its discrete evidential and pragmatic functions, the adverbial aišku 'clearly/of course' displays the merger of the two functions. The 105 adverbials akivaizdžiai 'evidently', aiškiai 'clearly', ryškiai 'visibly/clearly' and tariamai 'allegedly/supposedly' do not acquire a pragmatic function, which is indicated by their frequency and position. The results of the present study corroborate the findings of previous studies that common sources of evidential adverbials and pragmatic markers in Lithuanian are verb-based, adjective-based and noun-based CTP clauses.

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“…Most attention has been devoted to the adjectival use of panašu 'likely, it seems', which has been regarded as a marker of likelihood (Tekorienė 1990, 136;Akelaitis 2011). Its adverbial status and evidential epistemic meaning overlap have been discussed in fiction and academic discourse (Ruskan 2012(Ruskan , 2013. Despite the fact that there are a number of studies dealing with the functions and syntactic status of adjective-based CTPs in Lithuanian (Usonienė 2012(Usonienė , 2013(Usonienė , 2015Ruskan 2012Ruskan , 2013Ruskan , 2015, none of the studies have addressed the distribution and functions of tikėtina 'believable, likely' in present-day Lithuanian.…”

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“…The translational correspondences of likely in the parallel corpus ParaCorp ENàLTàEN (Šolienė 2012, 2015) allow for another Lithuanian equivalent to be established, namely tikėtina 'believable, likely', which derives from the verb of cognition tikėti 'believe, expect'. Although these markers, except for tikėtina 'believable, likely', have been investigated in both English (Quirk et al 1985;Biber et al 1999;Bamford 2005;Mindt 2011;Besnard forthcoming) and Lithuanian (Tekorienė 1990;Akelaitis 2011;Ruskan 2012), little attention has been paid to their formal and functional features across languages and types of discourse. The aim of the present study is to identify the functional similarities and differences of the English marker likely and its Lithuanian equivalents panašu 'likely, it seems' and tikėtina 'believable, likely' within the category of epistemicity (Boye 2010(Boye , 2012 in academic and newspaper discourse and to examine the links between their functional distribution and the semantic domains they derive from.…”

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Epistemic qualifications of the English marker likely and its equivalents in Lithuanian

Ruskan¹

2017

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The current study focuses on the epistemic qualifications realised by the English adjective and adverb likely and its equivalents in Lithuanian panašu 'likely, it seems' and tikėtina 'believable, likely', which derive from the semantic domain of comparison and belief. The aim of the study is to identify the functional similarities and differences of the markers in terms of their frequency, syntactic features (Complement-Taking-Predicates (CTPs), adverbials), functions, collocational profile and type of discourse (academic, newspaper). The English and Lithuanian data were drawn from the monolingual corpora, namely the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), Corpus of the Contemporary Lithuanian Language (CCLL), Corpus of Academic Lithuanian (CorALit) and the bidirectional parallel corpus ParaCorp ENàLTàEN . The quantitative and qualitative findings reveal that the closest cross-linguistic CTP and adverbial equivalents are likely and tikėtina 'believable, likely' because they are most frequent in formal registers (academic, newspaper discourse) and display similar collocational profiles and contexts of use. In contexts with explicit evidence and argumentation, they may acquire evidential functions. Although the CTP and adverbial panašu 'likely, it seems' shares similarities with likely and tikėtina 'believable, likely' in expressing the author's degree of probability, it shows a different semantic profile from the latter due to its conceptual link with the original meaning of similarity and appearances. The study shows how markers that derive from the semantic domain of comparison vary in functional distribution in present-day English and Lithuanian and introduces their functional equivalents deriving from a different semantic domain.

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Evidential adjectives in Lithuanian academic discourse

Cited by 11 publications

References 22 publications

Autoriaus pozicijos adverbialai ir adverbializacija lietuvių mokslo kalboje

Autoriaus pozicijos adverbialai ir adverbializacija lietuvių mokslo kalboje

Evidential adverbials in Lithuanian: a corpus-based study

Epistemic qualifications of the English marker likely and its equivalents in Lithuanian

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