Evidence for what?: Evidentiality and scope

Kasper Boye

Evidence for what? Evidentiality and scope

Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics

Abstract

This paper deals with the scope properties of evidential meanings. It rejects the idea that different types of evidential meanings have different scope properties. More basically, it rejects the idea that evidential meanings apply to ‘speech acts’ or to ‘states of affairs’. The paper argues that evidential meanings share scope properties in the sense that they are all conceptually dependent on a ‘proposition’ – i.e. a meaning unit which can be said to have a truth value. Subsequently, it outlines how the scope properties can be employed in criteria of membership of the category of evidentiality.

Keywords: scope, propositions, states of affairs, speech acts

Original language	English
Journal	Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung
Volume	63
Issue number	4
Pages (from-to)	290-307
Number of pages	18
ISSN	0942-2919
Publication status	Published - 2010

Keywords

Faculty of Humanities

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http://www.oldenbourg-link.com/doi/abs/10.1524/stuf.2010.0023

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