Visiblement en Français, Visiblemente en Espagnol : Des Marqueurs Évidentiels De Perception Directe Ou D’inférence ?

Dendale, Patrick; Vanderheyden, Anne; Alegría, Dámaso Izquierdo

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“…Even certainementE alone does not deserve that label because the lexical component of "epistemic posture" does not meet the functional definition of epistemic modality as given in section 3.1 (and most probably neither the formal one) and the meaning element of non-certainty is not part of the lexical meaning but emerges only at the utterance level. 50 We made a similar claim about the evidential and non-evidential use of French adverb visiblement in Dendale, Vanderheyden & Izquierdo Alegría (2020).…”

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Are "Modal Adverbs" automatically Modal Markers? The Case of French "Certainement" with its Epistemico-Modal and its Evidential Use

Dendale

2020

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The French adverb certainement (‘certainly’) is labelled a “modal adverb”. It has two (sentence adverb) uses according to the literature, called “strong modal use” and “weak modal use”. The strong modal use is indeed strong (epistemico-)modal in that it indicates total certainty, whether subjective or intersubjective. What is called its “weak modal use” is shown to be an evidential use. It indicates primarily that the content qualified by the adverb results from a non-monotonic inference, performed by the speaker, whose conclusions are plausible, defeasible, and thus never totally certain. This is due to the presence of an evidential-inferential component in its meaning. As for the so-called weak modal element of “probability” in its meaning, we reanalyse it as “non- certainty” and argue it is an element of utterance meaning, a property of quasi-assertions to which non-monotonically inferred content gives rise. Finally, we claim that the adverb also has a meaning component that we call “epistemic posture of certainty”, shown to be different from epistemic modality. On the basis of three parameters and their values, we show how certainementcan be interpreted, in a series of contextual configurations, either as an instance of its epistemico- modal use or of its evidential use.

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Are "Modal Adverbs" automatically Modal Markers? The Case of French "Certainement" with its Epistemico-Modal and its Evidential Use

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2020

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Are “Modal Adverbs” Automatically Modal Markers? The Case of French Certainement With Its Epistemico-Modal and Its Evidential Use

2020

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The French adverb certainement ('certainly') is labelled a "modal adverb". It has two (sentence adverb) uses according to the literature, called "strong modal use" and "weak modal use". The strong modal use is indeed strong (epistemico-)modal in that it indicates total certainty, whether subjective or intersubjective. What is called its "weak modal use" is shown to be an evidential use. It indicates primarily that the content qualified by the adverb results from a non-monotonic inference, performed by the speaker, whose conclusions are plausible, defeasible, and thus never totally certain. This is due to the presence of an evidential-inferential component in its meaning. As for the so-called weak modal element of "probability" in its meaning, we reanalyse it as "noncertainty" and argue it is an element of utterance meaning, a property of quasi-assertions to which non-monotonically inferred content gives rise. Finally, we claim that the adverb also has a meaning component that we call "epistemic posture of certainty", shown to be different from epistemic modality. On the basis of three parameters and their values, we show how certainement can be interpreted, in a series of contextual configurations, either as an instance of its epistemicomodal use or of its evidential use.

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“…Troisième indication : la collocation est sémantiquement fort proche de l'adverbe visiblement, qui a été décrit, dans son emploi exophrastique, comme un marqueur évidentiel inférentiel par Vanderheyden & Dendale (2018) et Dendale, Vanderheyden & Izquierdo Alegría (2020). Dans la majorité des occurrences de à ce que je vois dans son emploi comme collocation citées dans cette étude, il est possible de substituer visiblement à à ce que je vois.…”

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“…La conséquence est que visiblement s'éloigne, dans ce cas, de son emploi comme marqueur évidentiel. C'est quelque chose queVanderheyden & Dendale (2018) et Dendale, Vanderheyden & Izquierdo Alegría (2020 n'ont pas relevé dans leurs études sur visiblement.…”

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Qu’est-ce qu’on voit quand on dit à ce que je vois ? À propos de l’évidentialité inférentielle et perceptuelle

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Dendale

2020

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Dans cet article, nous montrons que la suite de mots à ce que je vois peut être considérée comme un marqueur évidentiel, quand elle a le statut d’une collocation à fonction d’adverbial de phrase. Selon le contexte, elle marquera la perception directe (cas le moins fréquent) ou l’inférence sur la base d’indices perçus (cas de loin le plus fréquent). La collocation autorise aussi une interprétation de « perception limitée », signifiant « pour autant que je puisse voir ». Celle-ci s’explique par la présence implicite à l’intérieur de la collocation, ou explicite, dans sa variante à ce que je peux voir, du verbe modal pouvoir, à signification de « capacité ». La possibilité d’interprétation comme perception limitée amène pour l’emploi évidentiel inférentiel de la collocation, le caractère « défectible » (defeasible) de la conclusion inférée, qui, lui, est de nature à avoir une influence négative sur la fiabilité de l’information.

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Visiblement en Français, Visiblemente en Espagnol : Des Marqueurs Évidentiels De Perception Directe Ou D’inférence ?

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Are "Modal Adverbs" automatically Modal Markers? The Case of French "Certainement" with its Epistemico-Modal and its Evidential Use

Are "Modal Adverbs" automatically Modal Markers? The Case of French "Certainement" with its Epistemico-Modal and its Evidential Use

Are “Modal Adverbs” Automatically Modal Markers? The Case of French Certainement With Its Epistemico-Modal and Its Evidential Use

Qu’est-ce qu’on voit quand on dit à ce que je vois ? À propos de l’évidentialité inférentielle et perceptuelle

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