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Sollen, wollen and the present subjunctive. Towards a unified description of the relation between evidentiality, modality and reported speech.

The deictic analysis of sollen, wollen and the present subjunctive, as markers of indirect verbal information, unearths a number of differences in the relation of the speaker and the information source in each of these elements. These differences are taken to be indicative of a gradual continuum that holds between the categories of 'evidentiality' and 'indirect speech', which seem to be more strongly associated than previously assumed. Moreover, the deictic analysis raises questions as to the categorial status of sollen, wollen and the present subjunctive as modal or evidential elements.
Date:1 Oct 2013 →  30 Sep 2015
Keywords:SYNTAXIS, SEMANTICS
Disciplines:Language studies, Linguistics, Literary studies