Inferentials: The Story of a Forgotten Evidential
Recent work in language and text has explored such broad functional categories as evidentiality and affect, and has examined their cross-linguistic occurrences and manifestations. This paper focusses on a single construction, explores its variations, and describes and explains its pragmatic and text...
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University of Kansas
1990-01-01
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| author | Delahunty, Gerald P. |
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| description | Recent work in language and text has explored such broad functional categories as evidentiality and affect, and has examined their cross-linguistic occurrences and manifestations. This paper focusses on a single construction, explores its variations, and describes and explains its pragmatic and textual functions. This rare construction, exemplified by It is that women in Ireland are not a form of prayer, occurs in several languages, denoting inferentiality, an aspect of evidentiality. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-46fd42cba12045398943d27c8a63d0d32022-12-22T04:24:58ZengUniversity of KansasKansas Working Papers in Linguistics2378-76001990-01-0115274410.17161/KWPL.1808.430Inferentials: The Story of a Forgotten EvidentialDelahunty, Gerald P.Recent work in language and text has explored such broad functional categories as evidentiality and affect, and has examined their cross-linguistic occurrences and manifestations. This paper focusses on a single construction, explores its variations, and describes and explains its pragmatic and textual functions. This rare construction, exemplified by It is that women in Ireland are not a form of prayer, occurs in several languages, denoting inferentiality, an aspect of evidentiality.http://hdl.handle.net/1808/430Evidentals (Linguistics) |
| spellingShingle | Delahunty, Gerald P. Inferentials: The Story of a Forgotten Evidential Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics Evidentals (Linguistics) |
| title | Inferentials: The Story of a Forgotten Evidential |
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| title_fullStr | Inferentials: The Story of a Forgotten Evidential |
| title_full_unstemmed | Inferentials: The Story of a Forgotten Evidential |
| title_short | Inferentials: The Story of a Forgotten Evidential |
| title_sort | inferentials the story of a forgotten evidential |
| topic | Evidentals (Linguistics) |
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