Sentence Adverbials and Evidentiality

Milada Hirschová

doi:10.2478/v10015-012-0022-8

Authors

Milada Hirschová Charles University, Prague

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2478/v10015-012-0022-8

Keywords:

evidentiality, semantics, pragmatics, Chech

Abstract

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.

Author Biography

Milada Hirschová, Charles University, Prague

Milada Hirschová teaches pragmatics and syntax of Czech at the Department of Czech language at the Faculty of Education, Charles University in Prague. Her research interests are syntax – pragmatics and semantics – pragmatics interface as well as speech acts theory with respect to Czech and other Slavic languages.

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