This paper examines a specific verbal paradigm with evidential interpretations in Romanian; it also addresses intriguing questions about compositionality in the evidential domain and the precise delimita- tion of this notion from other (modal) categories.The discussion is centered around a typical characteris- tic of evidentials about the past, namely that they are homophonous with the perfect counterfactuals and future perfects. A battery of tests is examined in detail, and it is demonstrated that evidentials are not pragmatic extensions of homophonous forms; they rather have to be considered independent entries in the database.

How to disambiguate an evidential construct? Taxonomy and compositionality of Romanian verbal complexes with evidential semantics / Irimia, Monica Alexandrina. - In: LANGUAGE TYPOLOGY AND UNIVERSALS. - ISSN 1867-8319. - 63:4(2010), pp. 322-332. [10.1524/stuf.2010.0025]

How to disambiguate an evidential construct? Taxonomy and compositionality of Romanian verbal complexes with evidential semantics

IRIMIA, Monica Alexandrina
2010

Abstract

This paper examines a specific verbal paradigm with evidential interpretations in Romanian; it also addresses intriguing questions about compositionality in the evidential domain and the precise delimita- tion of this notion from other (modal) categories.The discussion is centered around a typical characteris- tic of evidentials about the past, namely that they are homophonous with the perfect counterfactuals and future perfects. A battery of tests is examined in detail, and it is demonstrated that evidentials are not pragmatic extensions of homophonous forms; they rather have to be considered independent entries in the database.
2010
30-nov-2010
63
4
322
332
How to disambiguate an evidential construct? Taxonomy and compositionality of Romanian verbal complexes with evidential semantics / Irimia, Monica Alexandrina. - In: LANGUAGE TYPOLOGY AND UNIVERSALS. - ISSN 1867-8319. - 63:4(2010), pp. 322-332. [10.1524/stuf.2010.0025]
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