Essays about: "evidentialitet"

Found 2 essays containing the word evidentialitet.

1. 1. Epistemic modality in Ghanaian Pidgin English

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Avdelningen för allmän språkvetenskap

   Author : Anton Harry Nordén; [2016]
   Keywords : Epistemic modality; evidentiality; Ghanaian Pidgin English; corpus analysis; Epistemisk modalitet; evidentialitet; ghanansk pidginengelska; korpusanalys;

   Abstract : This study investigates the expression of epistemic modality in a corpus of Ghanaian Pidgin English (GhaPE). The epistemic expressions are manually identified and thereafter distinguished from each other in terms of grammatical status and their indication of different epistemic and evidential notions. READ MORE

3. 2. A comparative study of egophoric marking : Investigating its relation to person and epistemic marking in three language families

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Avdelningen för allmän språkvetenskap

   Author : Dominique Knuchel; [2015]
   Keywords : egophoricity; person indexing; epistemic marking; Tibeto-Burman; Barbacoan; Nakh-Daghestanian; egoforicitet; personböjning; epistemiska markörer; Barbacoanska; Nakh-Daghestanska; Tibetoburmesiska;

   Abstract : Egophoric marking as a potentially categorical expression in language is conceived of as a binary semantic contrast that marks an event as either involving one of the speech act participants (egophoric), or as one that does not (non-egophoric). Prima facie, the egophoric marking pattern resembles person indexing and has been interpreted as such. READ MORE