VOL. 53, BOOK 1, PART A, 2015, pp. 198 – 209 Full text (Bg)
Author: Ekaterina Tarpomanova
Affiliation: St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia
Abstract
The paper compares the evidentiality systems in Turkish, Bulgarian and Albanian, and the evidential strategy in Romanian, with a special attention on the dubitative whose semantic content has two components – an evidential and a modal one. The dubitative is analyzed as one of the evidentials / evidential meanings in those languages additionally marked for modality.
Key words: evidentiality, modality, dubitative, Balkan languages
