Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality in Spanish (Semi-)Auxiliaries
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Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality in Spanish (Semi-)Auxiliaries

A Cognitive-Functional Approach

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Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality in Spanish (Semi-)Auxiliaries

A Cognitive-Functional Approach

About this book

This volume presents a systematic and comprehensive analysis of the Spanish evidential semi-auxiliaries parecer and resultar, the modal constructions with amenazar and prometer, and the modal auxiliaries poder, deber and tener que. These verbs have never been considered together in a global approach that transcends the classical "verbal periphrases" model.

The book proposes a cognitive-functional account of evidentiality and modality in Spanish with special attention to subjectivity and grounding. The theoretical reflection relies on empirical evidence of two sorts: synchronic and diachronic corpus-analyses alternate with tests that measure the semantic and pragmatic compatibility of the evidential and epistemic constructions with specific sentences. Following the assumption that linguistic forms are determined by their meaning, the array of constructions that characterizes the different verbs justifies their grouping in three pairs of (semi-)auxiliaries: parecer vs resultar, amenazar vs prometer and poder vs deber/tener que. The distributional differences observed in the corpus are further shown to correlate with different degrees of grammaticalization.

Primarily intended for scholars working in the field of Spanish functional linguistics, the monograph is also relevant for grammaticalization studies and for cognitive-semantic research at large. Given its combined theoretical and applied character, the volume is also of interest to anyone concerned with syntactic processes, lexical semantics or the wider area of discourse analysis and pragmatics.

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Yes, you can access Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality in Spanish (Semi-)Auxiliaries by Bert Cornillie in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Langues et linguistique & Langues. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Year
2008
Print ISBN
9783110186116
eBook ISBN
9783110204483
Edition
1
Topic
Langues et linguistique
Subtopic
Langues

Table of contents

  1. Frontmatter
  2. Contents
  3. Chapter 1 Background, objectives and methodology
  4. Chapter 2 Evidentiality with parecer and resultar
  5. Chapter 3 Degrees of transparency and subjectification with parecer and resultar
  6. Chapter 4 Evidentiality and modality with prometer andamenazar
  7. Chapter 5 Partial transparency with modal prometer andamenazar
  8. Chapter 6 Subjectification of prometer and amenazar
  9. Chapter 7 Evidentiality, modality and transparency with poder, deber and tener que
  10. Chapter 8 Epistemic and evidential modals: modal grounding and subjectification
  11. Chapter 9 General conclusions
  12. Backmatter