Evidentials dizque and que in Spanish : Grammaticalization, parameters and the (fine) structure of Comp
In this paper we study one type of Spanish que (the equivalent to the complementizer “that”) that can be shown to belong into the crosslinguistically restricted list of evidentials. In particular, we will claim that it encodes the (most basic) marks of nonfirst- hand or indirect (reported) evidence....
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| Language: | Portuguese |
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Universidade do Porto
2013-01-01
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| Series: | Linguística |
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http://ler.letras.up.pt/uploads/ficheiros/11776.pdf
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