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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| description | 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.’ It is shown that, although Boye’s hypothesis sheds new light on and calls into question previous diachronic accounts of scheinen, it appears not to fully account for why cases where perception verbs do not scope over propositions are also found with evidential readings in light of the larger discourse context. It will be shown that Boye’s hypothesis is still feasible when such contexts are taken into account. Data are drawn from the German Manchester Corpus (GerManC), a representative multi-register corpus of Early Modern German from 1650 to 1800. |
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| spelling | nottingham-391452020-05-04T19:59:35Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/39145/ Evidentiality and propositional scope in early modern German Whitt, Richard J. 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.’ It is shown that, although Boye’s hypothesis sheds new light on and calls into question previous diachronic accounts of scheinen, it appears not to fully account for why cases where perception verbs do not scope over propositions are also found with evidential readings in light of the larger discourse context. It will be shown that Boye’s hypothesis is still feasible when such contexts are taken into account. Data are drawn from the German Manchester Corpus (GerManC), a representative multi-register corpus of Early Modern German from 1650 to 1800. John Benjamins 2018-08-10 Article PeerReviewed Whitt, Richard J. (2018) Evidentiality and propositional scope in early modern German. Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 19 (1). pp. 122-149. ISSN 1569-9854 Evidentiality Early Modern German Propositional Scope https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/jhp.00013.whi doi:10.1075/jhp.00013.whi doi:10.1075/jhp.00013.whi |
| spellingShingle | Evidentiality Early Modern German Propositional Scope Whitt, Richard J. Evidentiality and propositional scope in early modern German |
| title | Evidentiality and propositional scope in early modern German |
| title_full | Evidentiality and propositional scope in early modern German |
| title_fullStr | Evidentiality and propositional scope in early modern German |
| title_full_unstemmed | Evidentiality and propositional scope in early modern German |
| title_short | Evidentiality and propositional scope in early modern German |
| title_sort | evidentiality and propositional scope in early modern german |
| topic | Evidentiality Early Modern German Propositional Scope |
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