Geraldine Quartararo

List of John Benjamins publications in which Geraldine Quartararo is involved.

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Quartararo, Geraldine 2017 Chapter 12. Epistemic uses of the verb decir in La Paz Spanish: Digamos and dice Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 12: Selected papers from the 45th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Campinas, Brazil, Lopes, Ruth E.V., Juanito Ornelas de Avelar and Sonia M. L. Cyrino (eds.), pp. 185–198 | Chapter

This paper explores semantic extensions and pragmatic functions of two evidential forms found in La Paz Spanish, digamos ‘let’s say’ and dice ‘s/he says’. Both forms are inflected forms of the verb decir ‘to say’. The form dice ‘s/he says’ has the function of a reported evidential form, conforming… read more