The morphological and semantic classification of 'evidentials' and modal verbs in German : the perfect(ive) catalyst
- This paper draws a link between the typological phenomenon of the paradigmatically supported evidentiality evoked by perfect and/or perfectivity and the equally epistemic system of modal verbs in German. The assumption is that, if perfect(ivity) is at the bottom of evidentiality in a wide number of unrelated languages, then it will not be an arbitrary fact that systematic epistemic readings occur also for the modal verbs in German, which were preterite presents originally. It will be demonstrated, for one, how exactly modal verbs in Modem German still betray sensitivity to perfect and perfective contexts, and, second, how perfect(ivity) is prone to evincing epistemic meaning. Although the expectation cannot be satisfied due to a lack of respective data from the older stages of German, a research path is sketched narrowing down the linguistic questions to be asked and dating results to be reached.
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| Author: | Werner Abraham |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-307108 |
| URL: | http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/211.html?&L=1%27%2Band%2Bchar%28124%29%252Buser%252Bchar%28124%29%253D0%2Band%2B%27%27%253D |
| ISSN: | 1435-9588 |
| ISSN: | 0947-7055 |
| Parent Title (English): | Papers on language change and language acquisition, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Berlin, 2000; ZAS papers in linguistics Vol. 15 |
| Publisher: | Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung |
| Place of publication: | Berlin |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2013/10/01 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2000 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2013/10/01 |
| GND Keyword: | Morphologie; Semantik; Evidentialität; Modalverb; Perfekt; Deutsch |
| Volume: | 15 |
| Page Number: | 24 |
| First Page: | 36 |
| Last Page: | 59 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 353124400 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik |
| Sammlungen: | Germanistik / GiNDok |
| Linguistik | |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Semantik / Semantics |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: Morphologie / Morphology | |
| Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte: | ZAS papers in linguistics : ZASPiL / ZASPiL 15 = Papers on language change and language acquisition |
| : | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-306575 |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
