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Article Dans Une Revue Journal of Pragmatics Année : 2001

Toward a Semasiological account of Evidentials : an Enounciative Approach of -er in Modern Western Armenian

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Modern Western Armenian (henceforth MWA) has a specific form of completed past whose semantic values are similar to those which have helped found the notion of evidentiality in languages such as Turkish, Albanian, and Bulgarian. Although the facts of Armenian are comparable to those described for the above cited languages, our primary aim is to examine the formal marker associated with evidentiality in MWA as observed in a corpus of spontaneous speech. In so doing, we will reveal certain shortcomings of established theories on evidentiality. Going beyond the description of a particular language, we will address a number of methodological issues concerning the status of the notion of evidentiality in the description of natural languages and will call into question some more or less explicit theoretical presuppositions of the typological approach. Our alternative analysis is based on enunciative and discursive criteria.

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halshs-00554746 , version 1 (01-08-2012)

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Anaid Donabedian-Demopoulos. Toward a Semasiological account of Evidentials : an Enounciative Approach of -er in Modern Western Armenian. Journal of Pragmatics, 2001, 33/3, pp.421-442. ⟨halshs-00554746⟩
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