Evidentiality and lexicalisation in the Spanish phraseological system

A study of the idiom a fe mía (and its variants)

Bibliographic Data

ID7750812
AuthorsAina Torrent (Fachhochschule Köln, Germany; Universität Wien, Austria, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume17
Issue2
Pages241-256
Publication date2015-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDiscourse Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1461-4456 • E-ISSN: 1461-7080
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1461445614564525
OpenAlexW2321195454
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited15

This work addresses the relation among the semantic-pragmatic categories of evidentiality, epistemicity and intensification based on a study of the discursive use of certain Spanish idiomatic phraseological units. The first part offers an introduction to some theoretical aspects, while the second part analyses the usage of the idiom a fe que. Two important theses that are defended in this article are as follows: (a) evidentiality has played an important role in the process of lexicalisation and grammaticalisation of a number of idiomatic phraseological units and (b) some evidential expressions display the existence of close relationships among evidentiality, epistemicity and intensification

Epistemic modality · Evidentiality · Grammaticalization · Linguistics · Computer Science · History · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · linguistics and terminology studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies

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