Evidentiality in Early Modern German

摘要: This paper provides an overview of verbal markers evidentiality in Early Modern German (1650-1800) light Boye’s propositional scope hypothesis. The under investigation include the semi-auxiliary scheinen ‘to shine, appear, seem’ and perception verbs sehen ‘see’ horen ‘hear.’ It is shown that, although hypothesis sheds new on calls into question previous diachronic accounts scheinen, it appears not to fully account for why cases where do over propositions are also found with evidential readings larger discourse context. will be that still feasible when such contexts taken account. Data drawn from Manchester Corpus (GerManC), a representative multi-register corpus 1650 1800.