Inferential Statement in the German Language

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201212.064How to use a DOI?

Keywords

evidentiality, the German language, inferential statement, inferentiality, intuition, life experience, marker, logical inference, modal verb, modal word, perceptive activity, verb scheinen

Abstract

This article deals with the inferential statements as linguistic means of indicating and specifying the evidentiality in the German language. Evidentiality implies implicit or explicit ways of marking the mechanisms of obtaining the knowledge necessary for constructing a statement. Being one of the components of evidential semantics, inferentiality is directly related to the designation in the statement of information obtained through logical reasoning using the activity of sensory systems or personal experience. However, at the same time, such a characteristic of personality as the ability to intuition, which allows reconstructing a situation without involving logical analysis or past experience, often remains outside the field of examination of linguists. The analysis of the linguistic material made it possible, on the one hand, to clarify the concept of inferentiality, and on the other, to identify the means of explication of inferential semantics in the German language, which are represented by modal words, modal verbs in their secondary function and the verb scheinen. Let us note that, expressing epistemic modality in addition to inferential evidentiality, these lexemes are distinguished by their polyfunctionality.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Rezeda Shakirova
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/15
TI  - Inferential Statement in the German Language
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference Digital Age: Traditions, Modernity and Innovations (ICDATMI 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 325
EP  - 328
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201212.064
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201212.064
ID  - Shakirova2020
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