Evidentiality in Galician

Abstract

Introduction. The present paper draws on the expression of evidentiality in Galician. Expressions of indirect, inferential and reportive evidentiality are analyzed and a good number of indirect-indifferent examples is considered. The work has been organized as follows: Section 8.1 presents the corpus and a panoramic view of evidentiality in Galician. Section 8.2 describes inferential markers derived from SEE AND SEEM-verbs and the adverbial unit seica ‘apparently’, and the modal auxiliary deber ‘must’. Section 8.3 discusses reportive expressions. Section 8.4 focuses on units with an indirect-indifferent meaning; this is to say, units that occur in both inferential and reportive subdomains since their meaning varies between these two semantic areas and cannot be often disambiguated. [...]