Open AccessThe meaning of the Bulgarian evidential and why it cannot express inferences about the future
Author(s) -
Anastasia Smirnova
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
proceedings from semantics and linguistic theory
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2163-5951
pISSN - 2163-5943
DOI - 10.3765/salt.v0i0.2618
Subject(s) - bulgarian , evidentiality , meaning (existential) , linguistics , evidential reasoning approach , psychology , epistemology , computer science , artificial intelligence , philosophy , decision support system , business decision mapping
The paper presents a uniform analysis of the Bulgarian evidential in reportative and inferential contexts. The Bulgarian evidential is analyzed as having both a temporal and an epistemic modal component. The analysis allows to explain why the evidential can be used to report false beliefs in reportative contexts but not in inferential ones, as well as why the Bulgarian evidential cannot express inferences about the future. Both cases are problematic for the previous analyses of evidentiality in Bulgarian (Izvorski 1997, Koev 2011).