Anna Kocher

List of John Benjamins publications in which Anna Kocher is involved.

Articles

Kocher, Anna 2018 Epistemic and evidential modification in Spanish and Portuguese: A quantitative approach Extending the notion of near-synonymy: Studies in morphological, syntactic and pragmatic equivalence, Enghels, Renata (ed.), pp. 99–121 | Article

This article focuses on three constructions in Spanish and Portuguese that contain epistemic and evidential modifiers. It proposes that these constructions can be analyzed as cases of near-synonymy. Two of them are attested cross-linguistically: in the first, the modifiers function as… read more

Kocher, Anna 2017 From verum to epistemic modality and evidentiality: On the emergence of the Spanish Adv+C construction The Rise and Development of Evidential and Epistemic Markers, Cruschina, Silvio and Eva-Maria Remberger (eds.), pp. 77–110 | Article

In this article, I investigate the diachronic development of a construction in Modern Spanish. It consists of an epistemic or evidential modifier followed by the complementizer (hence Adv+C) that heads root clauses (Seguro Adv que C viene ‘Surely he/she will come’). I demonstrate that the… read more