The evidential meaning of modal parentheticals

Rossari, Corinne

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2012.09.004

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“…Compared to the previous patterns, this one contains a construction instead of a verb. Inflectionally, the verb agrees with the third person singular (its only option), as in the other values found in this corpus that also introduce propositional scope ('cognitive perception' and 'indirect physical perception'), and it reaches the highest level of constructionalization in its parenthetical uses (Cuenca and Marín, 2012;Rossari, 2012). The evidential value patterns present another important difference compared to all the previous categories: none of the cases in the corpus contain adjuncts.…”

Section: (Vi) Evaluative Perceptionsupporting

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From visual perception to evidentiality: A functional empirical approach to se ve que in Spanish

Marco

Jansegers

2019

Lingua

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The Spanish sequence se ve (que) presents intricate functional polysemy, including constructionalization as an evidential. The present paper investigates its different formal-functional combinations and degrees of specialization as an evidential construction. The following questions were addressed: (1) How many different senses can be distinguished in the sequence se ve (que) and what are their respective frequencies? (2) How do these senses correlate with the morphosyntactic behavior of the sequence se ve (que)? (3) Which senses of se ve (que) are more closely related to each other, and how does the evidential construction relate to this polysemous network? The semantic and formal affinities of se ve (que) were studied through the Behavioral Profiles method developed by Gries and Divjak (2009), which provides an empirical, systematic and verifiable approach to studying lexical phenomena. Its application to a pragmatic phenomenon is a new departure. The results show seven senses of se ve (que), ranging from the lexical value of direct physical perception to the more abstract and evidential value of 'source of information'. According to the corpus analysis, the closest senses to the evidential pole are indirect physical perception and cognitive perception. These all introduce an inflected verb clause, possess propositional scope and are morphosyntactically frozen..

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Section: (Vi) Evaluative Perceptionsupporting

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From visual perception to evidentiality: A functional empirical approach to se ve que in Spanish

Marco

Jansegers

2019

Lingua

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“…( Ohne jeglichen Anspruch auf Vollständigkeit seien hier einige einschlägige Arbeiten zur Orientierung angeführt: Caffi (1999Caffi ( , 2013; Fraser (1980); Kaltenböck (2010); Rossari (2012); Schneider (2007Schneider ( , 2010Schneider ( , 2015.…”

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Propositionale Argumente im Sprachvergleich / Propositional Arguments in Cross-Linguistic Research

2023

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Diese verschiedenen Herangehensweisen, z. T. auch verknüpft mit unterschiedlichen theoretischen Ansätzen werden selten zusammengebracht, sie scheinen aber grundsätzlich einander ergänzen zu können. Während bei der detaillierten Analyse eines Phänomens in einer einzelnen Sprache die Überprüfung der Implikationen für den Sprachvergleich und das Sprachprofil leicht aus dem Blick gerät, steht die Typologie vor der Herausforderung, durch den Vergleich vieler verschiedener Sprachen der Komplexität des Einzelphänomens in den Sprachen ggf. nicht gerecht werden zu können. Ein Desiderat der Forschung insbesondere im Bereich der propositionalen Argumente ist es daher, Wege zu finden, die Variation ausreichend detailliert zu analysieren und darauf aufbauend die Komplexität in der Variation kontrastiv und theoretisch adäquat zu beschreiben, und sie sowohl für die Typologie, Theoriebildung und die vergleichende Grammatikschreibung nutzbar zu machen.

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“…There are authors who do not consider evidential meaning as a primitive semantic value. They assign its occurrence to the action of different syntactic, semantic and pragmatic factors (see Rossari 2012Rossari , 2192.…”

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Strategic uses of certainty and uncertainty in a political debate

Ionescu-Ruxăndoiu

2014

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The paper analyses the contribution of modal forms expressing certainty and uncertainty to the construal of a politician’s ethos. Deontic modals are considered implicit evidentials. The theoretical and methodological background of the analysis is provided by pragmatics and discourse analysis, as discourse is the main place where ethos is construed. The illustrative data are selected from a TV debate which took place in the last presidential election campaign in Romania (2009). The confrontation involved Traian Bǎsescu (TB), the President in office, running for a second term, and Crin Antonescu (CA), the president of the National Liberal Party. The differences in their strategic use of certainty and uncertainty marks define two types of ethos for the audience: an ethos of power (TB) vs. an ethos of a man of character (CA).

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The evidential meaning of modal parentheticals

Cited by 9 publications

References 7 publications

From visual perception to evidentiality: A functional empirical approach to se ve que in Spanish

From visual perception to evidentiality: A functional empirical approach to se ve que in Spanish

Propositionale Argumente im Sprachvergleich / Propositional Arguments in Cross-Linguistic Research

Strategic uses of certainty and uncertainty in a political debate

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