Evolution with an attitude: the grammaticalisation of epistemic/evidential verbs in Australian English

Louro, Celeste Rodríguez; Harris, Thomas E.

doi:10.1017/s1360674313000105

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“…Over the last decades, think and believe have also been analyzed as markers of evidentiality (Thompson 2002;Rodríguez Louro and Harris 2013). Evidentiality is the encoding of the source of the information put forward, sometimes also referred to as a justification for the information (Boye 2012: 19) or modes of knowing (Cornillie 2007: 1).…”

Section: Epistemic Modality and Evidentiality: Theory And Practicementioning

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Evidence for Evidentiality

Foolen¹,

Hoop²,

Mulder³

2018

Human Cognitive Processing

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This chapter surveys the use of the first person present of the cognitive verb creer 'believe' in contemporary Peninsular Spanish. It is based on data that were gathered from Twitter. The different functions of creo 'I believe' are closely related to a limited set of syntactic patterns. Creo with complementizer que proves to be a highly frequent and prolific marker of evidentiality, epistemic modality and related functions. After a detailed description of these functions, I focus on creo que with and without subject personal pronoun yo. While creo que fits all functions equally well, the use of yo creo que is more restricted to speaker-oriented, subjective functions.

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Section: Epistemic Modality and Evidentiality: Theory And Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

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Foolen¹,

Hoop²,

Mulder³

2018

Human Cognitive Processing

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“…From the descriptive perspective adopted in this paper, however, it is convenient to use a term that simply captures the semantic domains involved. This is why I follow the example of Rodríguez Louro and Harris (2013), who introduce the term epistemic/evidential complement-taking predicates (E/E CTPs) for their quantitative analysis of these verbs in Australian English. This notion captures all predicates that can be used in Spanish to express evidentiality and/or epistemic modality.…”

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“…This research has been inspired in part by studies of Thompson (2002) and Rodríguez Louro and Harris (2013) of analogous verbs in English. However, unlike…”

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When feeling is thinking

Mulder¹

2017

Evidentiality Revisited

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This paper presents a survey of the predicates that are used in Spanish to express evidentiality and epistemic modality. 1 After an overview of the whole set and the characteristics of its most frequently used members, I will focus on a subset of predicates which share the fact that they do not lexicalize the act of reasoning or thinking but literally refer to perception and spontaneous mental processes. My analysis of the so-called epistemic/evidential complement-taking predicates is qualitative and based on data gathered mainly from Twitter. It is a lexicalsemantic analysis of actual, contemporary usage, which focuses on the semantic characteristics of the category as a whole and the individual verbs.

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“…Other core aspects of grammaticalisation, such as semantic bleaching, de- and re-categorialisation, and phonetic reduction (Hopper & Traugott 1993, Heine & Kuteva 2002, Lehman 2002) apply to some of the Q particles but not all. In much of our discussion of Q particles, there is also evidence of the Principle of Persistence, where traces of the original meaning remain ‘visible’ in the semantics of the new use (see Hopper 1991), evidence of Structural Persistence, where the component structure has a motivating role as to how structures relate as a whole and to the rebracketing of constituents (see Breban 2009), and evidence of general frequency effects (see Rodriguez Louro & Harris 2013). In our discussion of Niuean Q particles, the grammaticalisation of each Q particle creates the requisite conditions for the creation of other Q particles through a step-wise process (see van Gelderen 2008, Breban et al 2012), which we have diagrammed in word tables presented in next section.…”

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The origin of yes–no question particles in the Niuean language

Starks

Massam

2014

J. Ling.

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This paper considers data from Niuean, a Polynesian language with VSO word order and an extensive range of grammatical particles. We focus on three question particles,nakai, kaandkia, examining their possible historical origins. In related languages the preferred means of forming a yes–no question is by intonation alone, while in the Polynesian languages that have yes–no question particles, the forms are lexically distinct from those found in Niuean. We argue that the Niuean unmarked question particlenakaiis derived from the negative, the pragmatically markedkiaconstruction from the polite form of the imperative, and thekaconstruction from a lexical item which signals confirmation. In all three cases, the question particles do not replace their original grammatical or lexical source words but rather co-exist with them in new contexts. The three question particles have all undergone a process of semantic bleaching, increased syntactic bonding, and in some cases, phonetic reduction. While two of the processes have occurred early in Niuean, one is a very recent development.

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Evolution with an attitude: the grammaticalisation of epistemic/evidential verbs in Australian English

Cited by 10 publications

References 36 publications

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When feeling is thinking

The origin of yes–no question particles in the Niuean language

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