Pathways of Semantic Change: from Similarity Marker to Sensory Evidential

• Authors: Buzarovska E.
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The development of the epistemic 'kako da' in Macedonian, a Balkan Slavic language, illustrates the rise of a modal from a construction according to regular mechanisms of change. The change of a comparison subjunctive subordinator (kako da1), to a sensory evidential (kako da3) occurred in highly specialized contexts due to reanalysis and subjectification. The paper hypothesizes that 'kako da' was patterned after a borrowed syntactic construction and then underwent semantic and syntactic changes that led to the creation of a sensory evidential.

Keywords

EN

BALKAN PATTERN; EPITEMIC MODALITY; SENSORY EVIDENTIAL; SUBJECTIFICATION

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
• Journal: Slavia Meridionalis
• Year: 2006
• Volume: 6
• Pages: 185-208
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Buzarovska E.

• E. Buzarovska, University of Sts. Cyril and Methodius, Skopie, Macedonia

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07PLAAAA02695500