Inferentials

The Story of a Forgotten Evidential

Authors

  • Gerald P. Delahunty

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17161/KWPL.1808.430

Keywords:

Evidentals (Linguistics)

Abstract

Recent work in language and text has explored such broad functional categories as evidentiality and affect, and has examined their cross-linguistic occurrences and manifestations. This paper focusses on a single construction, explores its variations, and describes and explains its pragmatic and textual functions. This rare construction, exemplified by It is that women in Ireland are not a form of prayer, occurs in several languages, denoting inferentiality, an aspect of evidentiality.

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How to Cite

Delahunty, . G. P. (1990). Inferentials: The Story of a Forgotten Evidential. Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 15, 1-28. https://doi.org/10.17161/KWPL.1808.430