Evidentiality and propositional scope in early modern German
This paper provides an overview of verbal markers of evidentiality in Early Modern German (1650-1800) in light of Boye’s propositional scope hypothesis. The markers under investigation include the semi-auxiliary scheinen ‘to shine, appear, seem’ and the perception verbs sehen ‘see’ and hören ‘hear.’...
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John Benjamins
2018
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/39145/ |