Project Details
Projekt
Common-Ground-Management-Interaktionen: Romanische Evidentialitätsmarker (B02)
Subject Area
General and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages
Term
since 2025
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 538184825
This project focuses on the evidential uses of verbal morphology in (Peninsular) Spanish, French, and Italian. On the empirical side, the project will provide a theoretically informed cross-linguistic description of the common ground updates performed by these evidentials in assertions and non-biased questions, biased questions and embedded declaratives. Data will be collected via several complementary methodologies – informal consultations, corpus studies and experiments. On the theoretical side, the project will develop a formal compositional model that generates the observed parameters of variation and predicts the interactions of the evidentials with different types of speech act and syntactic contexts.
DFG Programme
Collaborative Research Centres
Applicant Institution
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Project Head
Dr. Paula Menendez Benito
