Essays about: "evidentiality"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the word evidentiality.

  1. 1. On indirectivity in Azeri : A discourse-analytical study of the functions of {-mỊš}/{-(y)ỊB-DỊ(r)} and {Ị-mỊš} in South Azeri varieties

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Author : Frida Larsson Taghizadeh; [2023]
    Keywords : Turkic languages; Azeri; evidentiality; indirectivity; discourse types;

    Abstract : Johanson (2003: 274) refers to the grammatical categories of evidentiality found in Turkiclanguages as indirectivity, characterised “by reference to its reception by a conscious subject”.The East Old Turkic post-terminal verbal item in -miš and copula particle in ermiš are theoldest known markers of indirectivity in Turkic and have been morphologically preserved inthe West Oghuz languages. READ MORE

  3. 2. A new evidential in Turkish? The online use and interpretation of –mışımdır and –ıyorumdur marked sentences

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap

    Author : Selcuk Defne Kartal; [2021]
    Keywords : sociolinguistics; Turkish grammar; language change; age variation; gender; evidentiality; Turkish language; social media; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The Turkish tense-aspect-modality system and its complexity has been the topic of many previous studies (Csato, 2000; Johanson, 2016; Slobin & Aksu, 1982) and there are many arguments on whether some of the tense-aspect-modality markers should be categorized as such in the first place, as well as what they express when used in combination with different grammatical markers. This thesis focuses on two sentence types; (i) those that have predicates marked by the primarily evidentiality marking –mış and (ii) those marked by the imperfective marking –ıyor. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Representation of Immigrants A Critical Discourse Analysis of Donald Trump’s Immigration Speech in the Presidential Campaign of 2016

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Banan Bara; [2020]
    Keywords : Critical Discourse analysis; Political Discourse; Ideological Discourse;

    Abstract : CDA is a multi-disciplinary approach to discourse which study the relationship between discourse, power and ideology. This makes the application of it on political discourse very suitable since it can be applied to analyse the specific structures of language and ideologies used by politicians to influence the recipient’s mind and hence their actions. READ MORE

  5. 4. The Past Tenses of Early Middle Japanese

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Japanska

    Author : Arthur Hård; [2018]
    Keywords : Early Middle Japanese; evidentiality; aspect; corpus linguistics;

    Abstract : Early Middle Japanese is one of the oldest attested stages of Japanese. Its rich legacy consists of several literary works from the Heian era (7 th to 11 th centuries), some of which are still appreciated and widely read today. READ MORE

  6. 5. 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