Functional and formal constraints on the emergence of epistemic modality: A longitudinal study on French  

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Bassano, Dominique

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: First Language (Full Text) vol. 16 no. 46 (Feb. 1996), page 77-113.
Fulltext: First Language 1996 16. 077-113.pdf (1.86MB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/FIL/16 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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The study investigates the emergence and early development of epistemic modality, a linguistic sub-system devoted to the expression of speakers' cognitive attitudes. It is based on the longitudinal analyses of naturalistic productions of a French child between 1;9 and 4;0. Analyses indicate that epistemic modality emerges later than dynamic/deontic categories and shows a specific developmental progression from 2;3 on. The study examines in particular: (1) the ontogenesis of epistemic functions, as primed by early meanings (prediction, ignorance) that anticipate core meanings related to certainty and uncertainty (possibility, belief, hypothesis); (2) the development of epistemic markings, where it is found that lexicalized devices emerge before grammaticalized ones; (3) the role of specific constraints concerning modal and proportional subject references. Results are discussed in a cross-linguistic perspective to specify how functional and formal constraints interact in the acquisition of epistemic modality.

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