The Present Perfect as an Epistemic Modal
The Present Perfect as an Epistemic Modal
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1997
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Roumyana Izvorski
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作者:
Roumyana Izvorski
In a number of languages from various language families, the morphology of the present perfect or a form historically derived from the present perfect, expresses a particular evidential category, one that indicates the availability of indirect evidence for the truth of a proposition (the exact interpretation i s discussed in more detai l in the next two sections) . l The phenomenon, to which I give the name PERFECT OF EVIDENTIALITY (PE), i s i l lustrated in ( I ) :