Modality, mood, and change of modal meanings: A new perspective

Narrog, Heiko

doi:10.1515/cogl.2005.16.4.677

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“…Finally, we should stress that the evolution of the allative future construction in Ancient Egyptian (INTENTION > PREDICTION > OPTATIVITY) is congruent with the proposal made by Narrog (2005Narrog ( , 2007Narrog ( , 2010 who argues that, diachronically, an increasing speaker-orientation is expected for modal grams: "modal meanings always shift in the direction of an increased speaker-orientation." According to Narrog (2010: 394), "the term speaker-orientation refers to the speaker her-or himself and the speech situation, including the hearer, and thus subsumes both subjectivity and intersubjectivity".…”

Section: Implications Of the Ancient Egyptian Verb-less Allative Futuresupporting

confidence: 72%

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On the pragmatics of subjectification: The grammaticalization of verbless allative futures (with a case study in Ancient Egyptian)

Grossman

Polis

2014

Acta Linguistica Hafniensia

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"The inventory of extant synchronic types are but the inventory of available grammaticalization pathways that gave rise to them. Consequently, the constraints on syntactic universals are in essence constraints on the developmental process of grammaticalization, rather than on the resulting synchronic structures" Talmy Givón (2001: 205)."All explanations for linguistic phenomena, both universal and language-specific, must necessarily have a diachronic dimension, since all linguistic phenomena have histories which determine their present conventionalized state. With respect to language universals [...], an explanation is not valid unless it can be demonstrated that the explanatory principle is actually at work in the mechanism of change that brings about the cross-linguistic pattern.Taking the role of diachrony one step further, one could argue that since there are so few absolute universals, identifying the mechanisms of change behind cross-linguistic patterns will lead us closer to an understanding of the factors that produce cross-linguistic patterns, and these factors, I would maintain, are the only true universals of language [...]. Thus, the focus for establishing the explanations for cross-linguistic similarities should be on the mechanisms of change" Joan Bybee (2008: 108). AbstractIn this paper, we argue that an expanded conception of the distinction between speaker-oriented and subjectoriented inferences is crucial for understanding the motivations and mechanisms of semantic change in grammaticalization and subjectivation, on the one hand, and for clarifying the links between semantic change and reductive formal changes. Speaker-oriented inferences have significant consequences, leading to the relaxation of selectional restrictions on a construction. In turn, the relaxation of selectional restrictions can create conditions in which the type-and token-frequency of a construction can rise considerably. Furthermore, changes in the selectional restrictions on a construction can themselves catalyze semantic change by coercing listeners into new form-function pairings. This framework is applied to the grammaticalization of allative futures, a typological comparative concept developed in order to compare structurally diverse future tenses. A small typological study allows us to reconsider some problematic pathways of grammaticalization and to suggest some alternative analyses. Following the typological discussion, a detailed diachronic case study of a verbless allative future in Ancient Egyptian is presented.

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Section: Implications Of the Ancient Egyptian Verb-less Allative Futuresupporting

confidence: 72%

“…The speaker-orientation is a crucial dimension of Narrog' (2005Narrog' ( , 20007, 2010 approach to (inter)subjectification. Indeed, he states that "speaker-orientation" is "the crucial dimension in cross-speaker-oriented inferences are consistently less compositional than subject-oriented ones.…”

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On the pragmatics of subjectification: The grammaticalization of verbless allative futures (with a case study in Ancient Egyptian)

Grossman

Polis

2014

Acta Linguistica Hafniensia

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“…As far as the differences in the present and the conditional tenses are concerned, the question arises why deber is more frequent in the conditional tense and less frequent in the present tense than tener que. Following Narrog (2005), the tense differences could be explained by the dimension of speaker-orientation, a notion related to subjectivity.…”

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“…Sirbu-Dumitrescu 1988;Olbertz 1998;Müller 2001;2005;RAE 2009). Müller (2001) applies a substitution test in order to argue for a difference in strength between deber and tener que, which is reproduced below:…”

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Intersubjective strategies in deontic modality: evidential functions of Spanish deber ‘must’

Thegel¹

2017

KLB

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The principal aim of this study is to examine the Spanish modal verb deber 'must' in its deontic readings, relating it to the notions of evidentiality and intersubjectivity. Deber has often been compared to the modal verb tener que 'have to' and described in rather vague terms, for example as an expression of weak, internal obligation, but this paper proposes that it is better understood as an intersubjective verb. Both quantitative and qualitative analyses have been carried out, with a special focus on the in-depth qualitative study. It will be shown that deontic deber can convey evidential meanings when used in the conditional form. First, it can refer to a norm shared between the speaker and the hearer, and, second, it can convey an inferential process, a conclusion presented by the speaker, which is based on shared information, available to a larger group (or all) of the interlocutors. Evidentiality is regarded here as an intersubjective strategy, used when the speaker wants to reach consensus, arguing for the most reasonable, morally defensible way to act. Thus, this study also offers a new perspective of evidentiality, looking at this notion in interaction with deontic modality instead of epistemic modality, which is usually the case.

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“…In my own writing on this topic, which has centered on the semantic and grammatical domain of modality (Narrog 2005(Narrog , 2007, to appear), I have basically adopted Traugott's concept of (inter)subjectification, in contrast to its competitor, first and foremost for its solid empirical (bottom-up) instead of conceptualist (top-down) orientation (cf. Narrog 2010: 392).…”

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Intersubjectivity and intersubjectification

Ghesquière

Brems

Velde

2012

ETC

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In this paper we present our views on intersubjectivity and intersubjectification with reference to case studies on adjectives, hedges, tags, honorifics, etc. Building on Diessel’s notion of “joint attention” and Traugott’s approach to intersubjectivity, we propose a distinction between three types of intersubjectivity: attitudinal, responsive, and textual. We evaluate and propose formal recognition criteria to operationalize this essentially semantic typology, such as left versus right periphery and prosodic features. In addition, we address the issue of directionality between subjectification and intersubjectification. Rather than seeing subjectivity as a prerequisite for intersubjectivity, we argue that in our typology intersubjective meanings of constructions may diachronically precede subjective ones.

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Modality, mood, and change of modal meanings: A new perspective

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On the pragmatics of subjectification: The grammaticalization of verbless allative futures (with a case study in Ancient Egyptian)

On the pragmatics of subjectification: The grammaticalization of verbless allative futures (with a case study in Ancient Egyptian)

Intersubjective strategies in deontic modality: evidential functions of Spanish deber ‘must’

Intersubjectivity and intersubjectification

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