36.543, Books: English evidential -ly adverbs from a functional perspective: Kemp (2024)

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Date: 12-Feb-2025
From: Jan Martin [lotdissertations-fgw at uva.nl]
Subject: English evidential -ly adverbs from a functional perspective: Kemp (2024)


Title: English evidential -ly adverbs from a functional perspective
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series
Publication Year: 2024

Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke
(LOT)
           http://www.lotpublications.nl/
Book URL: https://dx.medra.org/10.48273/LOT0682

Author(s): Loïs Kemp

Paperback
ISBN: 978-94-6093-466-7
Pages: 159
Price: €32.00

Abstract:

Like other languages, English has ways of expressing evidentiality, in
other words, ways of expressing the provenance of information from a
knowledge base. One such form is the English evidential -ly adverb.
The evidential -ly adverbs analysed in this book are: reportedly,
purportedly, allegedly, supposedly, evidently, presumably, seemingly,
apparently, obviously, clearly, visibly. Using the NOW corpus (News on
the Web), the adverbs were extracted with context from UK newspapers.
The theoretical framework adopted for the analysis of these adverbs is
Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG), a structural-functional approach
with a layered hierarchy. Tests using FDG layers are applied to
determine the categorization of evidential -ly adverbs into FDG
evidential subcategories: reportative, inferential, deductive and
event perception. The distribution and behaviour of these adverbs in
main clauses, clausal complements and noun phrases are explored by
applying FDG tools. It has appeared that some adverbs belong to more
than one evidential subcategory and are thus hosted by more than one
FDG layer. The meaning of these chameleon-like adverbs is determined
by the local context. The FDG analysis and its tests have confirmed
the categorization and meaning of the English evidential adverbs.
Although the adverbs belong to different layers with different
meanings, they all serve to mark a knowledge base as source of
information.

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Language Family(ies): English based




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