Marcadores de evidencialidade no português do Brasil

Gerda Haßler

doi:10.18364/rc.v1iEsp.511

Authors

Gerda Haßler Universität Potsdam

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18364/rc.v1iEsp.511

Keywords:

Evidentiality, markers, linguistic contact, grammaticalization.

Abstract

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.

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Author Biography

Gerda Haßler, Universität Potsdam

Professora da Universidade de Potsdam. Desde 1990, atua em várias sociedades científicas e conselhos consultivos: Membro do conselho da Associação Romanista Alemã, membro adjunto do Colégio Universitário Franco-Alemão, Conselho de Curadores do Gabinete da Juventude Franco- Alemão, Conselho Consultivo (Conseil d'administration) de SIHFLES (Société Internationale pour une Histoire du Français Langue Etrangère ou Seconde), SHESL (Société d'Histoire et d'Épistémologie du Langage); Conselho consultivo do European Enlightenment Research Centre (Potsdam), conselho consultivo da Historiographia Linguistica, conselho consultivo da revista Romance Studies in Past and Present (ed. HJNiederehe, J. Kramer), co-editor da série linguística (com Helmut Gipper e Peter Schmitter) 2002-2008 Vicepresidente da Associação Franco-Romanista. Chevalier dans l'ordre des Palmes Académiques 2008. Desde 2006 é coeditor da revista Contributions to the History of Linguistics.

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