Search for dissertations about: "Evidentiality"
Found 5 swedish dissertations containing the word Evidentiality.
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1. Evidentiality in Tajik
Abstract : The focus of this study is evidentiality—the grammatical marking of information source—in written and spoken Tajik. For marking evidential statements, Tajik employs a secondary register of verb forms (called register II forms) that all end in -a: the Perfect and the Perfectoids (the Perfectoid Imperfect and Perfectoid Pluperfect). READ MORE
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2. Aspect, evidentiality and tense in Mongolian : From Middle Mongol to Khalkha and Khorchin
Abstract : The present thesis consists of an introduction and the following papers:The aspect-evidentiality system of Middle Mongol. Ural-Altaic Studies, 13. (forthcoming)The tense-aspect system of Khorchin Mongolian. In: Pirkko Suihkonen & Lindsay Whaley (eds. READ MORE
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3. Evidential marking in spoken English : Linguistic functions and gender variation
Abstract : This thesis investigates the marking of evidentiality in spoken British English. Evidentiality is the linguistic expression of whether and how a speaker/writer has access to evidence for or against the truth of a proposition, and it is usually manifested in the form of sensory evidentiality (e.g. I saw Sam leave), hearsay evidentiality (e. READ MORE
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4. Discourse enclitics in Tena Kichwa : a corpus-based account of information structure and epistemic meaning
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5. Incongruous tense in Swedish : Past and present tense use with deviant time reference
Abstract : This thesis deals with incongruous tense in Swedish. Incongruous tense refers to uses of the past tense for events that overlap or succeed the moment of speech, which is normally considered to apply to the present tense, and uses of the present tense for events that precede the moment of speech, which is normally considered to apply to the past tense. READ MORE