Epistemic modality and evidentiality in Romance: the Reportive Conditional Semantics and variation

• Published in: Epistemic Modalities and Evidentiality in Cross-Linguistic Perspective p. 69
• Main Author: Kronning, Hans
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: epistemic modality; evidentiality; French; hearsay; Italian; linguistic variation; reported speech; Romance languages; Romanska språk; Spanish

In this article we study the Reportive Conditional (RC) in Romance, in French (1), Italian (2) and Spanish (3), using both unidirectional translation corpora and comparative corpora: (1) Kadhafi serait RC malade ‘Gaddafi is reportedly ill’, (2) Gheddafi sarebbe RC malato , (3) Kadafi estaria RC enfe...