A history of English evidential verbs of appearanceThanks to audiences at the Universities of Hong Kong and Newcastle, the 13th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Philip Miller, and two referees for ELL for their comments on earlier versions of this paper. All remaining errors are the authorsʼ. Gisborne gratefully acknowledges funding from the AHRC for a termʼs matching leave which made it possible to complete this work.
GISBORNE, NIKOLAS; HOLMES, JASPER; GISBORNE NIKOLAS; University of Edinburgh; HOLMES JASPER; University of Warwick
Журнал:
English Language and Linguistics
Дата:
2007
Аннотация:
In this corpus-based article we explore the development of evidential meanings in English verbs of appearance, together with their acquisition of evaluative meanings. We explore the relationship of these semantic changes to the question of whether there is an increase in subjectivity diachronically, and we show that subjectivity is orthogonal to both develop-ments: an increase in subjectivity appears rather to go with the spread of small clause constructions.
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