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Publication details [#14294]

Nuyts, Jan. 2001. Subjectivity as an evidential dimension in epistemic modal expressions. Journal of Pragmatics 33 (3) : 383–400.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

epistemic modality | evidential | subjectivity

Language as a subject

Dutch | English | German

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

A crosslinguistic analysis of the role of subjectivity in epistemic modal expressions. Demonstrating that the dimension of subjectivity appears structurally in the shape of expression forms of epistemic modality, the author argues for a reassessment of subjectivity in terms of evidentiality.