Topics in Subjectification and Modalization
This volume on subjectification and modalization sheds new light on two kinds of shifts: (i) the shift from originally lexical reading toward propositional or procedural ones and (ii) the shift from direct speech to various forms of indirect speech. The papers of this volume not only corroborate many of the assumptions and hypotheses on semantic and syntactic change made in the literature, but also uncover the underlying principles that motivate these processes. Five papers discuss the patterns lying behind the grammaticalization and subjectification of adverbs and verbs. Three papers dwell on different ways of reporting or distancing the speaker’s own or someone else’s discourse and address the issue of how the speaker can make use of tense to modalize the proposition.
Table of Contents
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IntroductionBert Cornillie and Nicole Delbecque | pp. vii–xii
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From Time to Discourse Monitoring:agora and então in European PortugueseAna Cristina Macário Lopes and Patrícia Amaral | pp. 3–18
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Syntactic Determinants of Pragmatic Markers of “Closure”María Jesús González Fernández and Ricardo Maldonado | pp. 19–44
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On certainly and zekerPieter Byloo, Richard Kastein, and Jan Nuyts | pp. 45–72
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The relation between Lexical and Epistemic Readings: The Equivalents of promise and threaten in Dutch and GermanMaurice Vliegen | pp. 73–95
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Subjectification of Verbs into Discourse Markers: Semantic-pragmatic Change only?Concepción Company Company | pp. 97–121
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Tense and Evidentiality in EstonianMati Erelt, Helle Metslang, and Karl Pajusalu | pp. 125–136
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Speech or Thought Representation and Subjectification, or on the need to think twiceLieven Vandelanotte | pp. 137–168
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Tense and Time in Counterfactual ConditionalsRenaat Declerck and Susan Reed | pp. 169–192