Chapter 4. (Yo) creo que as a marker of evidentiality and epistemic modality
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Gijs Mulder
Abstract
This chapter surveys the use of the first person present of the cognitive verb creer ‘believe’ in contemporary Peninsular Spanish. It is based on data that were gathered from Twitter. The different functions of creo ‘I believe’ are closely related to a limited set of syntactic patterns. Creo with complementizer que proves to be a highly frequent and prolific marker of evidentiality, epistemic modality and related functions. After a detailed description of these functions, I focus on creo que with and without subject personal pronoun yo. While creo que fits all functions equally well, the use of yo creo que is more restricted to speaker-oriented, subjective functions.
Abstract
This chapter surveys the use of the first person present of the cognitive verb creer ‘believe’ in contemporary Peninsular Spanish. It is based on data that were gathered from Twitter. The different functions of creo ‘I believe’ are closely related to a limited set of syntactic patterns. Creo with complementizer que proves to be a highly frequent and prolific marker of evidentiality, epistemic modality and related functions. After a detailed description of these functions, I focus on creo que with and without subject personal pronoun yo. While creo que fits all functions equally well, the use of yo creo que is more restricted to speaker-oriented, subjective functions.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Preface vii
- Introduction 1
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Part I. What do we know? Knowledge and evidence
- Chapter 1. Evidentiality as stance 19
- Chapter 2. Factual vs. evidential? The past tense forms of spoken Khalkha Mongolian 45
- Chapter 3. I think and I believe 77
- Chapter 4. (Yo) creo que as a marker of evidentiality and epistemic modality 99
- Chapter 5. Finnish evidential adverbs in argumentative texts 121
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Part II. When do we know? Accessibility of evidence in time
- Chapter 6. Uralic perspectives on experimental evidence for evidentials 145
- Chapter 7. Reportive sollen in an exclusively functional view of evidentiality 173
- Chapter 8. The French future 199
- Chapter 9. Evidence for the development of ‘evidentiality’ as a grammatical category in the Tibetic languages 227
- Chapter 10. From similarity to evidentiality 257
- Chapter 11. What can different types of linguistic data teach us on evidentiality? 281
- Author Index 305
- Language index 309
- Subject index 311
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Preface vii
- Introduction 1
-
Part I. What do we know? Knowledge and evidence
- Chapter 1. Evidentiality as stance 19
- Chapter 2. Factual vs. evidential? The past tense forms of spoken Khalkha Mongolian 45
- Chapter 3. I think and I believe 77
- Chapter 4. (Yo) creo que as a marker of evidentiality and epistemic modality 99
- Chapter 5. Finnish evidential adverbs in argumentative texts 121
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Part II. When do we know? Accessibility of evidence in time
- Chapter 6. Uralic perspectives on experimental evidence for evidentials 145
- Chapter 7. Reportive sollen in an exclusively functional view of evidentiality 173
- Chapter 8. The French future 199
- Chapter 9. Evidence for the development of ‘evidentiality’ as a grammatical category in the Tibetic languages 227
- Chapter 10. From similarity to evidentiality 257
- Chapter 11. What can different types of linguistic data teach us on evidentiality? 281
- Author Index 305
- Language index 309
- Subject index 311
