El principal objetivo del presente trabajo es comprobar hasta qué punto existen diferencias sociolingüísticas en la expresión de evidencialidad las cartas escritas por una mujer como Ana Lobera (1545-1621) contraste con un hombre Jerónimo Gracián (1545-1614), función también género sus destinatarios. artículo se estructura tres partes. En primera muestra el marco teórico, definiciones tanto con...

This volume brings together thoroughly reworked versions of a selection of papers presented at the conference The Notion of Commitment in Linguistics, held at the University of Antwerp in January 2007. It is the companion volume to a collection of essays in French to be published in Langue Française and devoted to La notion de prise en charge. Commitment is a close counterpart to prise en charg...

In this chapter, we pursue the hypothesis that quelque is an indefinite that relies on inference and ignorance, elaborating on our previous work. The form quelque N P, in which P is a property, means that the existence of an entity of type N satisfying P is a piece of information at which the epistemic agent got by inference (evidential aspect) and that the exact identity of such an entity rema...

This paper proposes a fuzzy evidential model for commonsense causal reasoning. After an analysis of the advantages and limitations of existing accounts of causality, a generalized rule-based model FEL (Fuzzy Evidential Logic) is proposed that takes into account the inexactness and the cumulative evidentiality of commonsense reasoning. It corresponds naturally to a neural (connectionist) network...

As in the case of other non-English languages, the study of the acquisition of Turkish has mostly focused on aspects of grammatical morphology and syntax, largely neglecting the study of the effect of interactional factors on child morphosyntax. This paper reviews indications from past research that studying input and adult-child discourse can facilitate the study of the acquisition of morphosy...