Evidentiality and temporal distance learning

Koev, Todor

Evidentiality and temporal distance learning

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Date

2011

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Proceedings of SALT 21 / Ashton, Neil; Chereches, Anca; Lutz, David (ed.). - Washington, DC : Linguistic Society of America, 2011. - pp. 115-134. - eISSN 2163-5951

Abstract

The grammatical category of evidentiality is traditionally defined as marking evidence type or related concepts (Anderson 1986, Willett 1988, Aikhenvald 2004). I argue against this received view as I show that evidential morphemes in Bulgarian mark the temporal distance between the time at which the speaker learned the described proposition and the topic time. I also demonstrate that Bulgarian evidentials represent projective/backgrounded content that is informative but does not affect the described proposition, which is plainly entailed. The latter fact especially has important typological and theoretical consequences. The proposal is formalized in a logic that extends Dynamic Predicate Logic by adding propositional variables (cf. AnderBois et al. 2010).

Subject (DDC)

400 Philology, Linguistics

Keywords

evidentiality, temporality, projective/backgrounded content

Conference

21st Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference, Mar 20, 2011 - Mar 22, 2011, New Brunswick

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KOEV, Todor, 2011. Evidentiality and temporal distance learning. 21st Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference. New Brunswick, Mar 20, 2011 - Mar 22, 2011. In: ASHTON, Neil, ed., Anca CHERECHES, ed., David LUTZ, ed.. Proceedings of SALT 21. Washington, DC:Linguistic Society of America, pp. 115-134. eISSN 2163-5951. Available under: doi: 10.3765/salt.v21i0.2594

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@inproceedings{Koev2011-09-03Evide-52811,
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  doi={10.3765/salt.v21i0.2594},
  title={Evidentiality and temporal distance learning},
  publisher={Linguistic Society of America},
  address={Washington, DC},
  booktitle={Proceedings of SALT 21},
  pages={115--134},
  editor={Ashton, Neil and Chereches, Anca and Lutz, David},
  author={Koev, Todor}
}

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