Chapter 7. Reportive sollen in an exclusively functional view of evidentiality
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Jeroen Vanderbiesen
Abstract
First, this chapter discusses some problems with a ‘narrow’ view of evidentiality that imposes structural requirements, both in its analysis of evidentiality as a whole and in its analysis of the reportive vs. quotative distinction in particular. It argues instead for a ‘broad’, exclusively functional view where evidentiality is seen as relating to justification for knowledge. On this basis, reportive evidentials are distinguished from quotatives, which are non-evidential forms that attribute information to a source. Second, the chapter substantiates its claims with a case study of specific uses of German sollen ‘shall’ that are analyzed as non-quotative, non-epistemic modal, reportive evidential constructions. Finally, sollen is related to ‘referral’, a newly-coined concept that captures the functional relation between quotatives and reportives.
Abstract
First, this chapter discusses some problems with a ‘narrow’ view of evidentiality that imposes structural requirements, both in its analysis of evidentiality as a whole and in its analysis of the reportive vs. quotative distinction in particular. It argues instead for a ‘broad’, exclusively functional view where evidentiality is seen as relating to justification for knowledge. On this basis, reportive evidentials are distinguished from quotatives, which are non-evidential forms that attribute information to a source. Second, the chapter substantiates its claims with a case study of specific uses of German sollen ‘shall’ that are analyzed as non-quotative, non-epistemic modal, reportive evidential constructions. Finally, sollen is related to ‘referral’, a newly-coined concept that captures the functional relation between quotatives and reportives.
Chapters in this book
- 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
Chapters in this book
- 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
