Evidential and epistemic sentence adverbs in Romance languages

  • In this paper evidential and modal adverbs will be studied, such as French apparemment, évidemment, visiblement, Italian apparentemente, evidentemente, ovviamente, and Spanish aparentemente, evidentemente and visiblemente. The development of their signification will be discussed, including German adverbs like offensichtlich. In these means of expression, the functional-semantic categories evidentiality and epistemic modality seem to overlap: on the one hand, they are used if the state of affairs talked about cannot be verified, that is, if there is still a moment of insecurity concerning the transmitted information. Then adverbials with a special structure (preposition + article + nominal form of a verb) will be analysed, and we will examine if they behave in the same way.

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Author details:Gerda HaßlerORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-421822
DOI:https://doi.org/10.13092/lo.92.4506
ISSN:1615-3014
Title of parent work (English):Linguistik online
Publication type:Article
Language:English
Year of first publication:2018
Publication year:2018
Publishing institution:Universität Potsdam
Release date:2019/03/14
Volume:92
Issue:5
First page:82
Last Page:98
Organizational units:Philosophische Fakultät / Institut für Romanistik
DDC classification:4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik
Peer review:Referiert
Publishing method:Open Access
License (English):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung 3.0 Unported
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