This volume examines evidential sentence adverbs such as "apparently" and "obviously" and links them to international research on sentence adverbs, evidentiality, grammaticalization, and the field of (not-)at-issueness. Using experimental data, and qualitative and quantitative corpus studies on contemporary German and its earlier linguistic stages, it shines light on and analyzes their syntax, semantics, and (non-)negotiability in discourse.

Autorentext
Kalle Müller, University of Tübingen, Germany.

Zusammenfassung

This series publishes original contributions which describe and theoretically analyze structures of natural languages. The main focus is on principles and rules of grammatical and lexical knowledge both with respect to individual languages and from a comparative perspective. The volumes cover all levels of linguistic analysis, especially phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, including aspects of language acquisition, language use, language change, and phonetical and neuronal realization.