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The Semantics and Pragmatics of the Japanese Evidentials -Rashii, -Sooda, and -Yooda: an Experimental Investigation

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Languages provide expressions that allow its users to indicate their source of information for a given claim, which can have an effect of attenuating how committed they appear to be to the truth of their claims (e.g., ame-ga futteiru-sooda ‘It is raining, I hear’). This linguistic notion has been termed...

Keyword:

semantics, pragmatics, experimental, Japanese, context, and evidentiality

Subject:

Linguistics

Creator:

Julie Matsubara

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Date Uploaded:

03/29/2018

Date Modified:

03/29/2018

Date Created:

2017-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation