A history of English evidential verbs of appearance
A history of English evidential verbs of appearance
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英语外观证据动词的历史
DOI:
10.1017/s1360674306002097
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发表时间:
2007
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1
通讯作者:
J. Holmes
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作者:
Nikolas Gisborne;J. Holmes
In this corpus-based article we explore the development of evidential meanings in English verbs of appearance, together with their acquisition of evaluative meanings. We explore the relationship of these semantic changes to the question of whether there is an increase in subjectivity diachronically, and we show that subjectivity is orthogonal to both develop-ments: an increase in subjectivity appears rather to go with the spread of small clause constructions.