Code
3E018310
Duration
01 October 2010 → 14 September 2014
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Humanities
- Linguistics
- Theory and methodology of linguistics
- Other languages and literary studies
Keywords
dutch
grammaticalization
modality
functional linguistics
linguistics
construction grammar
grammar
contrastive linguistics
English
evidentiality
Project description
This project consists in a contrastive study of English and Dutch verbs of appearance, which may serve an evidential function. Adopting a Construction Grammar and grammaticalization theory approach, the project seeks to explore the syntax-semantics interface and to position the constructions on a cline from lexical to grammatical. The constructions’ functions will be characterized in terms of epistemic modality, evidentiality and (inter)subjectivity