AJournalReviewofOntheSyntaxandSemanticsofEvidentials英语论文.doc

AJournalReviewofOntheSyntaxandSemanticsofEvidentials英语论文.docA Journal Review of On the Syntax and
Semantics of Evidentials
Introduction
A brief summary of the Journal
Personal ideas on the relationship between evidentials and epistemic
modals
The definitions of evidentiality and modality
the relationship evidentials and epistemic modals
First,从定义本身來看,言据性强调信息來源,是客观的,而只是
情态是客观的
Second从认识过程来看
Third,从语言表达形式来看
Conclusion
Introduction
Evidentiality is a universal language phenomenon. As early as 1911,the American linguist Boas discussed this language feature in his book Handbook of American Indian Languages. In 1971,Jakobson first proposed “evidentiality” a linguistic term,since then, evidentiality
attractes more and more attention of researchers, and the researches are
fruitful. Of the researchers, the most prominent are Chafe and Nichlols
(1986),Aikhenvald and Dixon (2003). Chafe and Nichlols (1986) seminal collection of papers on evidentials brought evidential system to the attention of linguists working on languages that lack such systems.
The research of evidentiality is of both theoretical and practical significance. This paper, on the basis of the Journal On the Syntax and Semantics of Evidential, will examine some questions about evidentiality. It consists of four parts: the first part is the introduction. The second is a brier summary of the Journal. In the next part, I will share some personal ideas about the issue of the relationship between evidentiality and epistemic modals. In the last part, I will draw some
conclusions.
A brief summary of the Journal
In the Journal, the Author provides an overview of the three central
theoretical issues about evidentiality. First, the Author examines the question whether the evidentials form a coherent closed-class system, independent of other systems of grammar. During this pat, the Author points out that in some languages such as Tariana, the information source is obligatory and the ways to express information source has been grammaricized into a small and cl