The internal structure of evidentiality in Romance

• Autores: Mario Squartini
• Localización: Studies in language: International Journal Sponsored by The Foundation "Foundations of Language", ISSN 0378-4177, Vol. 25, Nº 2, 2001, págs. 297-334
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This article discusses the evidential uses of the Future, Conditional and Indicative Imperfect in various Romance languages (mostly French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish) and the semantic factors that underlie the choice be-tween them. The Romance data are used as a background for an evaluation of proposed taxonomies of evidentiality (Willett 1988; Frawley 1992; Botne 1997). It is shown that Willett's model, based on the primary distinction direct vs. indirect type of evidence, is better suited to account for eviden-tiality in Romance, while the notion of source should be considered as inde-pendently interacting with the type of evidence/mode of knowing