In:The Development of Speaker-Oriented Adverbs in English: Reanalysis, ellipsis, lexicalization or analogy?
Dagmar Haumann and Kristin Killie
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 287] 2025
► pp. 142–155
Chapter 8Evidential adverbs
Published online: 13 February 2025
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.287.c8
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.287.c8
Article outline
- 8.1Preliminaries: Evidentiality, evidential vs. epistemic adverbs
- 8.2The meanings of the adverbs in the evidential subset
- 8.2.1Apparently
- 8.2.2Evidently
- 8.2.3Obviously
- 8.3The overall occurrence of the adverbs in the evidential subset
- 8.4Testing the hypotheses empirically
- 8.4.1Hypothesis I–III: Reanalysis
- 8.4.2Hypothesis V: Lexicalization of relator -ly: the copular-clause hypothesis
- 8.4.3Hypothesis VI: Analogy
- 8.5Conclusion
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