Evidencialidad reportativa. Una revisión teórica
- Lidia Mañoso-Pacheco 1
- Beatriz Juárez-Escribano 1
- 1 Universidad Nebrija, España
ISSN: 0719-4706
Year of publication: 2019
Issue Title: Homenaje Oscar Ortega Arango
Volume: 6
Issue: 4
Pages: 189-206
Type: Article
More publications in: Revista Inclusiones: Revista de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales
Abstract
Notwithstanding the wide-ranging investigations into the phenomenon of reportive evidentiality, there is still a need for clarification of its scope and related notions. This paper presents a theoretical revision of reportive evidentials, i.e., those cases in which the speaker/writer reports the evidence given by another information source. The review starts with an examination of the main taxonomies found in the field of linguistics, suggesting the use of the term ‘reportive’ to encompass reporting markers. The paper continues by discussing the relationship between reportive evidentiality and reported speech. We support that there is a cline of functions between the two categories. Despite this, we single out possible criteria to distinguish reporting expressions. They focus on the presence of the original source of the information, as well as the propositional scope of the reporting and reported segments. We conclude by presenting some areas to further explore these issues, such as the relation between reported speech and modality.