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Evidence for Evidentiality
Edited by Ad Foolen, Helen de Hoop and Gijs Mulder
[Human Cognitive Processing 61] 2018
► pp. 173–198

Chapter 7
Reportive sollen in an exclusively functional view of evidentiality

| Universiteit Antwerpen, Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek – Vlaanderen (FWO)

First, this chapter discusses some problems with a ‘narrow’ view of evidentiality that imposes structural requirements, both in its analysis of evidentiality as a whole and in its analysis of the reportive vs. quotative distinction in particular. It argues instead for a ‘broad’, exclusively functional view where evidentiality is seen as relating to justification for knowledge. On this basis, reportive evidentials are distinguished from quotatives, which are non-evidential forms that attribute information to a source. Second, the chapter substantiates its claims with a case study of specific uses of German sollen ‘shall’ that are analyzed as non-quotative, non-epistemic modal, reportive evidential constructions. Finally, sollen is related to ‘referral’, a newly-coined concept that captures the functional relation between quotatives and reportives.

Keywords: German sollen , quotative, referral, reportive
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.A narrow view
    • 2.1Evidentiality
    • 2.2Reportives, quotatives, and reported speech
    • 2.3Analytical difficulties
  • 3.A broad view
    • 3.1Evidentiality (and related categories)
    • 3.2Reportives, quotatives, and reported speech
  • 4.Case study: soll
    • 4.1Excursus: evidentiality in European languages
    • 4.2 soll: descriptive analysis
    • 4.3A reportive evidential
    • 4.4A non-epistemic-modal epistemic modal
  • 5.Conclusions and the notion of referral
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 19 July 2018
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