Sentence Adverbials and Evidentiality

• Authors: Milada Hirschová
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper deals with expressions of evidence (originating in perception, inference or reported information) and their role in sentence/utterance pragmatic modification. It concentrates on the role of the so-called sentence adverbials, showing them as scoping / focussing elements the main function of which is a/ to mark focus of an utterance b/ to support speaker´s reasoning. Formal properties of evidential expressions are dissimlar to that point that they cannot be comprised into a unified category.  

Keywords

EN

evidentiality; semantics; pragmatics; Chech

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Research in Language
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 131-140

Dates

published

2013-06-30

Contributors

author

Milada Hirschová

• Charles University, Prague

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10015-012-0022-8