Academic Scientific JournalsDistancing interpretations with reportative markers: a comparison of German [sollen + inf] and Dutch [zou + inf]
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https://doi.org/10.26881/sgg.2023.49.04Keywords:
reportative evidentiality, epistemic overtones, reportative exceptionality, modal verbs, contrastive linguisticsAbstract
This paper focuses on the reportative use of sollen and its Dutch “counterpart” zou. The main question is to what extent both markers differ with regard to the presence of distancing interpretations. On the basis of two corpus studies, it can be shown that distancing interpretations are more frequent with zou than with soll and also occur in different contexts: zou appears relatively often in complement constructions which, due to their strong association with multi‑perspectivity, are highly compatible with distancing interpretations; reportative sollen is hardly ever used in complement constructions.
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