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Publication details [#64402]
Irimia, Monica Alexandrina. 2018. Pragmatics or morpho-syntax? The encoding of indirect evidentiality in Romanian. Journal of Pragmatics 128 : 148–160. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
Journal WWW
Annotation
A pivotal question about the encoding of evidential notions in human languages is whether they derive from pragmatics or morpho-syntax. This article handles some dares posed by a specific verbal paradigm with evidential semantics in Romanian, the so-called presumptive mood. The essence of the presented assay is that a syntactic induction makes better prognoses for this class than just a pragmatic clarification.