A central question about the encoding of evidential notions in human languages is whether they result from pragmatics or can be read off morpho-syntax. This paper addresses some challenges posed by a particular verbal paradigm with evidential semantics in Romanian, the so-called presumptive mood. The gist of the proposed analysis is that a syntactic derivation makes better predictions for this class than a purely pragmatic explanation.
A central question about the encoding of evidential notions in human languages is whether they result from pragmatics or can be read off morpho-syntax. This paper addresses some challenges posed by a particular verbal paradigm with evidential semantics in Romanian, the so-called presumptive mood. The gist of the proposed analysis is that asyntactic derivation makes better predictions for this class than a purely pragmatic explanation.
Pragmatics or morpho-syntax? The encoding of indirect evidentiality in Romanian / Irimia, Monica Alexandrina. - In: JOURNAL OF PRAGMATICS. - ISSN 1879-1387. - 128:(2018), pp. 148-160. [10.1016/j.pragma.2017.11.015]
Pragmatics or morpho-syntax? The encoding of indirect evidentiality in Romanian
IRIMIA, Monica Alexandrina
2018
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A central question about the encoding of evidential notions in human languages is whether they result from pragmatics or can be read off morpho-syntax. This paper addresses some challenges posed by a particular verbal paradigm with evidential semantics in Romanian, the so-called presumptive mood. The gist of the proposed analysis is that asyntactic derivation makes better predictions for this class than a purely pragmatic explanation.
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