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Epistemic uses of the verb decir in La Paz Spanish: Digamos and dice
Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Romance Studies and Classics.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1163-4485
2017 (English)In: Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 12: Selected papers from the 45th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Campinas, Brazil / [ed] Ruth E.V. Lopes, Juanito Ornelas de Avelar, Sonia M. L. Cyrino, 2017, p. 186-198Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This paper explores semantic extensions and pragmatic functions of two evidential forms found in La Paz Spanish, digamos ‘let’s say’ and dice ‘s/he says’. Both forms are inflected forms of the verb decir ‘to say’. The form dice ‘s/he says’ has the function of a reported evidential form, conforming to results from previous studies (Babel 2009; Olbertz 2007; Travis 2006; Laprade 1981), while the form digamos is used according to a previously unnoticed function of an inferential evidential.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2017. p. 186-198
Series
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, ISSN 1574-552X ; 12
Keywords [en]
stance, epistemic modality, grammaticalisation, indirect evidentiality
National Category
General Language Studies and Linguistics
Research subject
Spanish
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-143079ISBN: 9789027203922 (print)ISBN: 9789027265302 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-143079DiVA, id: diva2:1094892
Conference
45th meeting of the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 45), Campinas, Brazil, May 6-9, 2015
Available from: 2017-05-11 Created: 2017-05-11 Last updated: 2022-02-28Bibliographically approved

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