{"title":"Evidentiality in Spoken Catalan. The Evidential Marker \"diu que\"","authors":"Jordi M. Antolí Martínez, André Pons","doi":"10.1344/10.1344/AFEL2020.10.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1344/10.1344/AFEL2020.10.6","url":null,"abstract":"This research was financed by the project Gestion de la Informacion y Estructuracion Linguistica [Information Management and Linguistic Structuring] (GestInf), of the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (FFI2017-85441-R) and by the project Variacion y cambio linguistico en catalan. Una aproximacion diacronica segun la linguistica de corpus [Variation and Linguistic Change in Catalan. A diachronic approach according to corpus linguistics] (VARIALINGCA) also of the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (FFO PGC2018-099399-B-I00). This work was additionally supported by the research group “Linguistic Variation in Catalan (VaLingCat)”, University of Valencia (Ref: GIUV2017-397) and by the project Elaboracio d’un corpus oral dialectal del valencia col·loquial [Preparation of a Dialectal Oral Corpus of Colloquial Valencian] (CorDiVal), funded by the Valencian Government (Generalitat Valenciana, Ref. GV/2017/094).","PeriodicalId":40232,"journal":{"name":"Anuari de Filologia-Estudis de Linguistica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46052026","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Análisis discursivo de las actitudes hacia la lengua minimizada de los maestros de educación infantil y primaria de la provincia de Huesca","authors":"Iris Orosia Campos Bandrés, R. Sala","doi":"10.1344/10.1344/AFEL2020.10.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1344/10.1344/AFEL2020.10.1","url":null,"abstract":"A pesar de que en el curso 2017/2018 se cumplieron dos decadas de la entrada del aragones en la escuela, todavia son escasos los datos sobre su situacion y perspectivas de futuro en el ambito educativo. Con el fin de realizar una aportacion en este sentido, desarrollamos un estudio de caso multiple bajo metodologia cualitativa, centrado en el analisis de las actitudes linguisticas de la comunidad educativa de las 26 escuelas donde se ensenaba esta lengua entre 2013 y 2015. En lo que respecta a los docentes, los datos muestran un clima actitudinal predominante que denominamos como interes condicionado, tendente a la valoracion positiva de la lengua per se pero con cierto rechazo a su promocion en la ensenanza, al identificarse como una potencial amenaza desde el punto de vista laboral por parte de unos claustros de maestros compuestos principalmente por docentes interinos. Asimismo, entre los maestros prevalece una ideologia sobre el aprendizaje linguistico de orientacion instrumental, lo cual se suma a lo anterior para explicar la escasa evolucion del aragones en la Educacion Infantil y Primaria.","PeriodicalId":40232,"journal":{"name":"Anuari de Filologia-Estudis de Linguistica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44731970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Boundaries between Perception and Evidentiality. Dialectal and Diachronic variation in \"se ve que\"","authors":"M. Estellés, M. Albelda","doi":"10.1344/10.1344/AFEL2020.10.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1344/10.1344/AFEL2020.10.7","url":null,"abstract":"The sequence se ve que can convey various meanings: indirect physical perception, cognitive perception and evidentiality. The latter value, however, is restricted to European Spanish, and is especially frequent in the Eastern Area. From a diatopic perspective, the existence of ambiguous uses of se ve que can be acknowledged where speakers can interpret both a perceptual and an evidential meaning of the structure. Thanks to a diachronic study and to the analysis of ambiguous vs. non-ambiguous uses, this article postulates further recognition criteria that help distinguish between perceptual and evidential meanings of se ve que . In this sense, the study shows that the trait shared by perceptual and evidential values —and the one leading to ambiguity— is the fact that they are based on one and the same reasoning process, and the difference between them —that may help distinguish them— lies in the part of the reasoning process that is being cognitively focused. Likewise, the article shows how a deeper study of se ve que can contribute to a better understanding of evidentiality in Spanish.","PeriodicalId":40232,"journal":{"name":"Anuari de Filologia-Estudis de Linguistica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42010638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How Evidential is the Epistemic Conditional?","authors":"Agnès Celle","doi":"10.1344/10.1344/AFEL2020.10.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1344/10.1344/AFEL2020.10.4","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims to reassess how —and if— the epistemic conditional in French relates to evidentiality, focusing on its use in reportative and non-reportative declarative sentences as well as in conjectural polar questions. It is proposed that the epistemic conditional developed from the modal hypothetical use, which accounts for its ability to establish an epistemic frame. The epistemic conditional is defined as a construction that conveys an assumption whatever the source of information. It is claimed that the epistemic conditional does not primarily encode information source. Although the epistemic nature of the epistemic conditional makes it prone to draw on reportative evidence, it is not primarily an evidential marker. Nonetheless, the epistemic conditional is claimed to have indirect evidential and mirative extensions. Rather than the type of information source, the conditional encodes the speaker’s lack of control over information, which affects her level of commitment. Such an approach allows handling the different uses of the epistemic conditional in declarative sentences as well as in conjectural questions in a unified way.","PeriodicalId":40232,"journal":{"name":"Anuari de Filologia-Estudis de Linguistica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44742683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Iris Orosia Campos Bandrés, Rosa María Tabernero Sala
{"title":"ANÁLISIS DISCURSIVO DE LAS ACTITUDES HACIA LA LENGUA MINORIZADA DE LOS MAESTROS DE EDUCACIÓN INFANTIL Y PRIMARIA DE LA PROVINCIA DE HUESCA","authors":"Iris Orosia Campos Bandrés, Rosa María Tabernero Sala","doi":"10.1344/afel2020.10.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1344/afel2020.10.1","url":null,"abstract":"A pesar de que en el curso 2017/2018 se cumplieron dos décadas de la entrada del aragonés en la escuela, todavía son escasos los datos sobre su situación y perspectivas de futuro en el ámbito educativo. Con el fin de realizar una aportación en este sentido, desarrollamos un estudio de caso múltiple bajo metodología cualitativa, centrado en el análisis de las actitudes lingüísticas de la comunidad educativa de las 26 escuelas donde se enseñaba esta lengua entre 2013 y 2015. En lo que respecta a los docentes, los datos muestran un clima actitudinal predominante que denominamos como interés condicionado, tendente a la valoración positiva de la lengua per se pero con cierto rechazo a su promoción en la enseñanza, al identificarse como una potencial amenaza desde el punto de vista laboral por parte de unos claustros de maestros compuestos principalmente por docentes interinos. Asimismo, entre los maestros prevalece una ideología sobre el aprendizaje lingüístico de orientación instrumental, lo cual se suma a lo anterior para explicar la escasa evolución del aragonés en la Educación Infantil y Primaria.","PeriodicalId":40232,"journal":{"name":"Anuari de Filologia-Estudis de Linguistica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41686179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE EXPRESSION OF EVIDENTIALITY IN SPOKEN AND WRITTEN TEXTS: EMPIRICAL APPROACHES TO ROMANCE LANGUAGES","authors":"André Pons","doi":"10.1344/AFEL2020.10.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1344/AFEL2020.10.2","url":null,"abstract":"Evidentiality is a grammatical category that encodes information source as its primary meaning. The information can be: acquired through direct perception, reported by others (hearsay) or inferred by the speaker upon considering the information that is available. Languages with an evidential grammatical category have morphemes with a primary evidential value (Aikhenvald 2004). Nevertheless, Romance languages, like many other languages, have a tense- modal system and lack an evidential grammatical category, instead of which several lexical units or certain constructions convey information source. This special issue is devoted to some of those items, such as modal adverbs, evidential meanings developed from tenses such as the conditional, and certain (semi)grammaticalized markers using SAY-verbs and SEE-verbs. These evidential strategies are good examples of the lexical-grammatical continuum (Cornillie 2007b, Squartini 2008, Pietrandrea 2007, Diewald & Smirnova 2010).","PeriodicalId":40232,"journal":{"name":"Anuari de Filologia-Estudis de Linguistica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48550262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ON THE POLITICAL USE OF THE REPORTATIVE CONDITIONAL IN ITALIAN NEWSPAPERS","authors":"Paolo Greco","doi":"10.1344/10.1344/AFEL2020.10.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1344/10.1344/AFEL2020.10.5","url":null,"abstract":"The labels condizionale riportivo (reportative conditional) or condizionale citativo (quotative conditional) are employed to describe certain uses of the conditional mood in Italian, particularly when the conditional marks the non-firsthand nature of a given piece of information. This use of the conditional is particularly frequent in the language of newspapers. However, reportative conditionals may also carry epistemic overtones, and they are used by speakers when they want to stress that they are not committed to the truthfulness of the information reported. Depending on the context, a reportative conditional can be either a purely evidential marker, or an evidential marker with epistemic overtones. Some Italian (trained) speakers exploit this ambiguity as a strategy to play on the two possible interpretations. This strategy is particularly significant in contexts in which the speaker is supposed to be neutral and, as such, must refrain from expressing her/his epistemic stance when recounting events. In this paper, after an analysis of the different sections of newspapers in which reportative conditionals occur, I will discuss one particular use of reportative conditionals in Italian newspapers, i.e. the “political” use of conditionals. To this end, I will carry out a qualitative analysis of some excerpts from newspapers published between the second half of the 19th century and today. In particular, it will be shown that journalists often take advantage of the ambiguities underlying reportative conditionals in Italian, in order to discredit the political position of a person (or group) without overtly questioning it.","PeriodicalId":40232,"journal":{"name":"Anuari de Filologia-Estudis de Linguistica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41492213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"EVIDENTIALITY IN SPOKEN CATALAN. THE EVIDENTIAL MARKER DIU QUE","authors":"Jordi M. Antolí Martínez, Andreu Sentí i Pons","doi":"10.1344/afel2020.10.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1344/afel2020.10.6","url":null,"abstract":"This study deals with an Catalan evidential marker without a written tradition, but mainly an oral one: diu que (‘(s)he.says.that’, ‘it is said that’), a Romance correlate for dizque (Spanish) or dice che (Italian) (cf. Travis 2006, Cruschina 2015, Alcázar 2018). The spoken, dialectal and, to some extent, residual nature of this marker forces us to search for different sources in order to approach it. The study focuses on the oral recordings of Museu de la Paraula [Word Museum] —an ethnological archive with monological spoken texts— will be completed with the examination of the first results of the colloquial corpus Parlars —a dialectal and informal corpus with monological and dialogical spoken texts. The analysis of diu que and the corpus data show a partially grammaticalized construction with a reportative evidential value. A mirative extension can be also found, but not a pure epistemic meaning. Also, the rise of diu que has been seen as an example of grammatical constructionalization with a tendency towards more subjective meanings, from a quotative strategy to a reportative evidential marker. Related markers such asque diu que or the conventional formula to begin tales això diu que era have been attested.","PeriodicalId":40232,"journal":{"name":"Anuari de Filologia-Estudis de Linguistica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45075229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE BOUNDARIES BETWEEN PERCEPTION AND EVIDENTIALITY. DIALECTAL AND DIACHRONIC VARIATION IN SE VE QUE","authors":"Maria Estellés Arguedas, Marta Albelda Marco","doi":"10.1344/afel2020.10.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1344/afel2020.10.7","url":null,"abstract":"The sequence se ve que can convey various meanings: indirect physical perception, cognitive perception and evidentiality. The latter value, however, is restricted to European Spanish, and is especially frequent in the Eastern Area. From a diatopic perspective, the existence of ambiguous uses of se ve que can be acknowledged where speakers can interpret both a perceptual and an evidential meaning of the structure. Thanks to a diachronic study and to the analysis of ambiguous vs. non-ambiguous uses, this article postulates further recognition criteria that help distinguish between perceptual and evidential meanings of se ve que. In this sense, the study shows that the trait shared by perceptual and evidential values —and the one leading to ambiguity— is the fact that they are based on one and the same reasoning process, and the difference between them —that may help distinguish them— lies in the part of the reasoning process that is being cognitively focused. Likewise, the article shows how a deeper study of se ve que can contribute to a better understanding of evidentiality in Spanish.","PeriodicalId":40232,"journal":{"name":"Anuari de Filologia-Estudis de Linguistica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43323610","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Expression of Evidentiality in Spoken and Written Texts: Empirical Approaches to Romance Languages","authors":"Andreu Sentí i Pons","doi":"10.1344/afel.2020.10.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1344/afel.2020.10.2","url":null,"abstract":"Evidentiality is a grammatical category that encodes information source as its primary meaning. The information can be: acquired through direct perception, reported by others (hearsay) or inferred by the speaker upon considering the information that is available. Languages with an evidential grammatical category have morphemes with a primary evidential value (Aikhenvald 2004). Nevertheless, Romance languages, like many other languages, have a tense- modal system and lack an evidential grammatical category, instead of which several lexical units or certain constructions convey information source. This special issue is devoted to some of those items, such as modal adverbs, evidential meanings developed from tenses such as the conditional, and certain (semi)grammaticalized markers using SAY-verbs and SEE-verbs. These evidential strategies are good examples of the lexical-grammatical continuum (Cornillie 2007b, Squartini 2008, Pietrandrea 2007, Diewald & Smirnova 2010).","PeriodicalId":40232,"journal":{"name":"Anuari de Filologia-Estudis de Linguistica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48268777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}