On the grammaticalization of inferential evidential meaning: English "seem" and German "scheinen"

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On the grammaticalization of inferential evidential meaning: English "seem" and German "scheinen"

This paper provides an account of inferential evidential meaning in English and German, realized by seem and scheinen, respectively. The focus is on the grammaticalization of these verbs into semi-auxiliaries that take infinitive complements, a process localized mainly to the seventeenth and eightee...

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Main Author:	Whitt, Richard J.
Format:	Article
Published:	University of California, Berkeley 2015
Subjects:	Evidentiality Grammaticalization English German
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/29336/

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