Pragmatics or morpho-syntax? The encoding of indirect evidentiality in Romanian

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. Th...

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Published in:Journal of pragmatics 2018-04, Vol.128, p.148-160
Main Author: Irimia, Monica Alexandrina
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Conjugation
Counterfactuality
Derivation (Syntax)
Evidentiality
Indicative
Indirect evidentiality
Linguistics
Pragmatics
Romanian language
Semantics
Speaker’s Deictic Center
Syntactic analysis
Syntactic processing
Syntax
Syntax semantics relationship
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Summary: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.
ISSN:0378-2166
1879-1387
DOI:10.1016/j.pragma.2017.11.015