On the grammaticalization of inferential evidential meaning: English "seem" and German "scheinen"
(2015)
Journal Article
Whitt, R. J. (2015). On the grammaticalization of inferential evidential meaning: English "seem" and German "scheinen". Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis, 20(2),
This paper provides an account of inferential evidential meaning in English and German, realized by seem and scheinen, respectively. The focus is on the grammaticalization of these verbs into semi-auxiliaries that take infinitive complements, a proce... Read More about On the grammaticalization of inferential evidential meaning: English "seem" and German "scheinen".