Romance sentence adverbs in -mente: Epistemic mitigation in synchrony and diachrony
In Romance, epistemic sentence adverbs expressing certainty often reduce the truth value of the proposition. Examples such as Fr. sûrement and Sp. seguramente convey probability and even doubt rather than certainty. This phenomenon, called epistemic mitigation, is the topic of this paper. It will be...
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Universität Bern
2018
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| Online-Zugang: | https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=664573476008 http://dx.doi.org/10.13092/lo.92.4507 |
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