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Title:
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Evidentiality. The linguistic code of point-of-view
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Author:
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Fernando Bermúdez
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Email:
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Degree Awarded:
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Stockholm University
, Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies
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Degree Date:
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2006
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Linguistic Subfield(s):
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Syntax
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Subject Language(s):
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Spanish
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Director(s):
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Lars Fant
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Abstract:
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This work investigates into the semantic domain of evidentiality and its
grammatical expression in Spanish. A model for describing the evidentiality
domain is outlined, which emphasises the scalar nature of the proposed
parameters: information source (subject-internal <--> external), access to
information (exclusive <--> universal) and mode of access (sensory <-->
cognitive), all of which are construed as bipolar continua. Support is also
provided for the relevance of using the notions of deixis and perspective
in describing evidentiality.
The prevailing view in current research is that of evidentiality being a
grammatical category to be analysed separately from other evidential
strategies. The present study challenges this view as it attempts to
broaden the perspective on how evidential meanings, expressed by various
grammatical means, fit into an overall picture of human cognition and
communication patterns. The theoretical framework adopted is that of
Cognitive Grammar, which, it is argued, is particularly suited for
investigating evidentiality, in particular due to the central role given to
perspective, metaphor and category fuzziness in describing grammar and
grammatical structures.
Four articles constitute the body of this work, in which four different
prototypical aspects of the encoding of evidentiality into grammatical
devices in Spanish are addressed. In the first, the marking of common
knowledge in consecutive connectives is argued to depend on a perspective
shift; the second proposes the evidential values of tense morphemes to be
their core meaning, time deixis being an inference; in the third and the
forth it is claimed that the evidential and modal effects of both
subject-raising and clitic climbing are determined through the attribution
of varying degrees of prominence to the relational participants.
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