The Syntax of Information-Structural Agreement
Johannes Mursell
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 268] 2021. xii, 280 pp.
Johannes Mursell
List of John Benjamins publications for which Johannes Mursell plays a role.
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Subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Article
2018 Chapter 9. Embedding evidence in Tagalog and German: On two types of evidentials Tense, Aspect, Modality, and Evidentiality: Crosslinguistic perspectives, Ayoun, Dalila, Agnès Celle and Laure Lansari (eds.), pp. 185–212 | Chapter
We compare two particles with similar meaning contributions from two different languages, German wohl and Tagalog yata, both roughly translatable as ‘I infer’. Based on their context usage, we claim that both are inferential evidentials. Despite their identical meaning, we assume a non-uniform… read more