This article discusses the evidential uses of the Future, Conditional and Indicative Imperfect in various Romance languages (mostly French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish) and the semantic factors that underlie the choice between them. The Romance data are used as a background for an evaluation of proposed taxonomies of evidentiality (Willett 1988; Frawley 1992; Botne 1997). It is shown that Willett’s model, based on the primary distinction direct vs. indirect type of evidence, is better suited to account for evidentiality in Romance, while the notion of source should be considered as independently interacting with the type of evidence/mode of knowing.
2023. The evidential future in Italian. Natural Language Semantics 31:2-3 ► pp. 139 ff.
Mélac, Eric
2023. The pragmatic differences between grammatical and lexical evidentiality: A corpus-based study of Tibetan and English. Journal of Pragmatics 210 ► pp. 143 ff.
Trovesi, Andrea
2023. The modal meaning za pripomnjane of the Bulgarian imperfect tense and its counterparts in other Slavic languages. In Studi contrastivi di linguistica slava: grammatica e pragmatica [Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici, 54], ► pp. 181 ff.
Trovesi, Andrea
2023. Valori modali dell’imperfetto in italiano e in bulgaro. Una rassegna contrastiva. In Studi contrastivi di linguistica slava: grammatica e pragmatica [Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici, 54], ► pp. 165 ff.
Trovesi, Andrea
2023. Valore modale ‘epistemico-doxastico’ dell’imperfetto in italiano e nelle lingue slave. In Studi contrastivi di linguistica slava: grammatica e pragmatica [Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici, 54], ► pp. 147 ff.
Battaglia, Elena, M. Hagafors, L. Heiden & L. Tarrade
2022. Sources d'information et savoir en interaction en italien parlé : le cas des catégorisations incrémentales. SHS Web of Conferences 146 ► pp. 05002 ff.
Dessì Schmid, Sarah
2022. Morphologie des Italienischen. In Linguistik im Sprachvergleich, ► pp. 357 ff.
Domínguez Romero, Elena
2022. Reportive evidentiality. A perception-based complement approach to digital discourse in Spanish and English. Journal of Pragmatics 201 ► pp. 134 ff.
2022. The Italian epistemic marker mi sa [to me it knows] compared to so [I know], non so [I don’t know], non so se [I don’t know whether], credo [I believe], penso [I think]. PLOS ONE 17:9 ► pp. e0274694 ff.
2021. Perspectival factors and pro-drop: A corpus study of speaker/addressee pronouns with creer ‘think/ believe’ and saber ‘know’ in spoken Spanish. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 6:1
Ahern, Aoife, José Amenós-Pons & Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes
2020. Future Tense Acquisition by French-Speaking Learners of L2 Spanish: Chronology, Conjecture and Concession. In New Trends in Language Acquisition Within the Generative Perspective [Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, 49], ► pp. 27 ff.
Figueras Bates, Carolina & Dorota Kotwica
2020. Introduction: Evidentiality, Epistemicity and Mitigation in Spanish. Corpus Pragmatics 4:1 ► pp. 1 ff.
Florea, Silvia
2020. Reportative evidentiality and attribution in Romanian fairy tales. Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics 56:1 ► pp. 1 ff.
Hennemann, Anja
2020. Tal vez es X vs. Tal vez sea X. Probability constructions and the use of mood. Romanica Olomucensia 32:1 ► pp. 51 ff.
Baranzini, Laura & Alda Mari
2019. From epistemic modality to concessivity: Alternatives and pragmatic reasoning per absurdum. Journal of Pragmatics 142 ► pp. 116 ff.
Bres, Jacques
2019. Le conditionnel en français : un état de l’art. Langue française N° 200:4 ► pp. 5 ff.
2018. Evidential and Argumentative Functions of Dynamic Appearance Verbs in Italian: The Example of Rivelare and Emergere. In Argumentation and Language — Linguistic, Cognitive and Discursive Explorations [Argumentation Library, 32], ► pp. 73 ff.
2018. Unconditional readings and the simple conditional tense in Spanish: inferentials, future-oriented intentionals, future-in-the-past. Probus 30:2 ► pp. 305 ff.
2015. Expressing evidentiality through prosody? Prosodic voicing in reported speech in Spanish colloquial conversations. Journal of Pragmatics 85 ► pp. 138 ff.
Haßler, Gerda
2015. Evidentiality and the expression of speaker’s stance in Romance languages and German. Discourse Studies 17:2 ► pp. 182 ff.
Haßler, Gerda
2023. The development of the concept of ʽevidentialityʼ and its exogenous application to European languages. Language & History 66:2 ► pp. 186 ff.
2014. The Evidential Use of the Spanish Imperfect and the Conditional in Journalistic Contexts. Studia Neophilologica 86:2 ► pp. 183 ff.
Patard, Adeline
2014. When tense and aspect convey modality. Reflections on the modal uses of past tenses in Romance and Germanic languages. Journal of Pragmatics 71 ► pp. 69 ff.
Patard, Adeline & Walter De Mulder
2014. Aux origines des emplois modaux de l'imparfait. Le cas de l'emploi hypothétique et de l'emploi contrefactuel. Langages N° 193:1 ► pp. 33 ff.
Barbet, Cécile & Louis de Saussure
2012. Présentation : Modalité et évidentialité en français. Langue française n°173:1 ► pp. 3 ff.
Cornillie, Bert & Paola Pietrandrea
2012. Modality at work. Cognitive, interactional and textual functions of modal markers. Journal of Pragmatics 44:15 ► pp. 2109 ff.
De Mulder, Walter
2012. Un sens épistémique pour l'imparfait et le passé simple ?. Langue française n°173:1 ► pp. 99 ff.
Dendale, Patrick & Julie Van Bogaert
2012. Réflexions sur les critères de définition et les problèmes d'identification des marqueurs évidentiels en français. Langue française n°173:1 ► pp. 13 ff.
Kronning, Hans
2012. Le conditionnel épistémique : propriétés et fonctions discursives. Langue française n°173:1 ► pp. 83 ff.
Wiemer, Björn & Veronika Kampf
2012. On Conditions Instantiating Tip Effects of Epistemic and Evidential Meanings in Bulgarian. Slovene 1:2 ► pp. 5 ff.
2009. Dizque, evidentiality, and stance in Valley Spanish. Language in Society 38:4 ► pp. 487 ff.
Paz, Alejandro
2009. The Circulation of Chisme and Rumor: Gossip, Evidentiality, and Authority in the Perspective of Latino Labor Migrants in Israel. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 19:1 ► pp. 117 ff.
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