On the rise of epistemic meanings in English: An example of subjectification in semantic change  

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Traugott, Elizabeth C.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language (ada di JSTOR) vol. 65 no. 1 (Mar. 1989), page 31-55.
Fulltext: ON THE RISE OF EPISTEMIC MEANINGS IN ENGLISH.pdf (546.85KB)

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This paper outlines three general tendencies in semantic change, and focuses on the third: meanings tend to become increasingly situated in the spekaer's subjective belief state or attitude toward the proposition. Examples are dawn from the development of epistemic, including evidential, meanings in ENglish in three domains: modal auxilaries (e.g. must), assertive speech act verbs (e.g. insist that), and modal adverbs (e.g. apparently). It is shown that epistemics develop from less to more strongly subjecetive epistemicly. The process of change involved in the development of epistemics is hypothesized to be strengthening of pragmatic inferences to relevance, not, as has sometimes been suggested, generalization, bleaching, or metaphor.*

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