Evidencialidade/mediatividade, modalidade epistémica e (inter)subjetividade

Evidentiality or, following the French linguistic tradition, “mediativity” is a complex and controversial category, with an already extensive body of literature devoted to other languages few studies focusing on Portuguese. As conceptual abstracting away from its means expression, which some extent present in such as Portuguese that lack specific grammatical system for codification, evidentiality/mediativity raises two main issues are yet be addressed: first question concerns definition status grammatical, semantic or discursive category basis, traditionally characterized referring source information propositional content utterance, while second touches upon demarcation respect epistemic modality. The aim this study provide answer both questions cognitive-functional, usage-based perspective, basis grammaticalized evidential/mediative markers Portuguese, namely compound form future verb parecer ‘seem’ followed by non-finite finite clause. We sustain view evidentiality provides indication about reliability information, does not necessarily involve degrees speaker commitment (un)certainty. While reportative evidential uses Modern European typical news reports, evidence relative independence relation modality, inferential reveal close link, even partial overlap, between Both these contribute speaker’s control discourse intersubjective alignment. stemmed diachronic cognitive pragmatic-discursive processes subjectification, resulted intersubjectification.