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TY  - BOOK
ID  - 313681
TI  - Evidentiality in German : linguistic realization and regularities in grammaticalization
AU  - Diewald, Gabriele.
AU  - Smirnova, Elena.
PY  - 2010
SN  - 9783110240696 9783110241037 3110240696 311024103X 1282784188 9786612784187 9781282784185 6612784180
PB  - Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter Mouton,
DB  - UniCat
KW  - Grammar
KW  - German language
KW  - Grammar, Comparative and general
KW  - Allemand (Langue)
KW  - Grammaticalisation
KW  - Grammaticalization
KW  - Grammaticalization.
KW  - German language -- Grammaticalization.
KW  - Grammar, Comparative and general -- Grammaticalization.
KW  - Philology & Linguistics
KW  - Languages & Literatures
KW  - Ashkenazic German language
KW  - Hochdeutsch
KW  - Judaeo-German language (German)
KW  - Judendeutsch language
KW  - Judeo-German language (German)
KW  - Jüdisch-Deutsch language
KW  - Jüdischdeutsch language
KW  - Semantics
KW  - Germanic languages
KW  - Syntax
KW  - Linguistics
KW  - Philology
KW  - German/language.
KW  - Historical Linguistics.
UR  - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:313681
AB  - This book is a comprehensive study of the evidential system in German. It presents a systematic description of the encoding of evidentiality in present-day German, as well as a diachronic reconstruction of the relevant sources and paths of grammaticalization from the Old High German period onwards. Based on empirical corpus research, the study investigates the degree of grammaticalization of each single evidential construction and the make-up of the present-day system as well as the diachronic stages that lead to the present state. The book focuses on three main issues. First, it is concerned with the general notion of evidentiality, its deictic character, and with the interrelations between the domains of evidentiality and epistemic modality. Second, the book presents the results of the synchronic corpus-based analysis of the German evidential periphrastic constructions werden 'become' + infinitive, scheinen 'seem', drohen 'threaten', versprechen 'promise' + zu 'to'- infinitive, which constitute a paradigm for coding evidentiality in Present Day German. Third, the diachronic development of the evidential constructions is represented as a complex grammaticalization process, interacting with the development of modal constructions and leading to a highly differentiated category of modal and evidential distinctions in the grammar of German. 
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