El condicional com a marcador epistèmic i evidencial en català antic: el condicional evidencial reportatiu amb verbs de dicció
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Josep Martines [1]
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[1] Universitat d'Alacant
Universitat d'Alacant
Alicante, España
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- Localización: Zeitschrift für Katalanistik: Revista d'Estudis Catalans, ISSN-e 2199-7276, ISSN 0932-2221, Nº. 30, 2017, págs. 19-51
- Idioma: catalán
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Resumen
This article is centred around the rise of the conditional as an epistemic andevidential marker in reporting contexts in Old Catalan. The process studied begins witha situation in which the conditional 1.) marks the epistemic position of the source withregard to a given state of affairs; it then moves toward 2.) marking the epistemic posi-tion of the speaker with regard to the propositional content expressed in the sourceand, particularly, his non-commitment to this content. Subjectivisation and intersubjec-tivisation are identified as decisive factors for an understanding of the various semanticand pragmatic facets that reprise evidential conditionals may exhibit. The ongoinggrammaticalisation process allowed conditionals from the 15th century onward tofunction without any further lexical or discursive devices as an epistemic and evidentialmarker in and of itself.
