Evidentiality markers in Brazilian Portuguese

• Autor(a) principal: Haßler, Gerda
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Confluência
• Texto Completo: https://revistaconfluencia.org.br/rc/article/view/511
• topic: Evidentiality; markers; linguistic contact; grammaticalization.; Evidencialidade; marcadores; contacto linguístico; gramaticalização.alidade; gramaticalização

This paper is about evidentiality markers in Brazilian Portuguese. Portuguese does not have obligatory and grammaticalised evidentiality markers. From a geolinguistic perspective, however, the question arises as to whether contact with languages that have such markers has an influence on the nature and frequency of the marking of evidentiality in Brazilian Portuguese. First, some expressions of evidentiality in indigenous languages on the territory of Brazil will be discussed. Then, some evidentiality markers, especially diz que and parece que, are presented and their functions are discussed. Many uses of these evidentiality markers do not allow for attribution to specific types of evidentiality. Overall, it can be concluded that contact with languages with grammaticalised evidentiality may have contributed to the high frequency of markers of evidentiality in Brazilian Portuguese, but has not led to borrowings of forms or to the greater delineation of types of evidentiality.