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Evidentiality in German - Linguistic Realization and Regularities in Grammaticalization (Hardcover)
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Evidentiality in German - Linguistic Realization and Regularities in Grammaticalization (Hardcover)
Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
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This book is a comprehensive study of the evidential system in
German. It presents a systematic description of the encoding of
evidentiality in present-day German, as well as a diachronic
reconstruction of the relevant sources and paths of
grammaticalization from the Old High German period onwards. Based
on empirical corpus research, the study investigates the degree of
grammaticalization of each single evidential construction and the
make-up of the present-day system as well as the diachronic stages
that lead to the present state. The book focuses on three main
issues. First, it is concerned with the general notion of
evidentiality, its deictic character, and with the interrelations
between the domains of evidentiality and epistemic modality.
Second, the book presents the results of the synchronic
corpus-based analysis of the German evidential periphrastic
constructions werden 'become' + infinitive, scheinen 'seem', drohen
'threaten', versprechen 'promise' + zu 'to'- infinitive, which
constitute a paradigm for coding evidentiality in Present Day
German. Third, the diachronic development of the evidential
constructions is represented as a complex grammaticalization
process, interacting with the development of modal constructions
and leading to a highly differentiated category of modal and
evidential distinctions in the grammar of German.
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