{"id":7443,"date":"2015-04-03T15:23:50","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T14:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/?page_id=7443"},"modified":"2016-05-12T11:05:58","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T10:05:58","slug":"volume-9-2015","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/en\/journals\/papers-of-the-lsb\/volume-9-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Volume 9 (2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editors: Mieke Vandenbroucke, Tine Defour, Bart Defrancq, Stavros Kelepouris and Jonah Rys
\n

<\/div>
The just me construction. Is it just me, or does it work like a discourse marker?<\/div><\/div>
<\/div>

Yinchun Bai<\/strong><\/p>\n

Discourse markers have received considerable attention over the years. This paper contributes to the growing body of studies combining Construction Grammar and pragmatics in understanding discourse behaviors and discourse markers. Using the Corpus of Contemporary American English – the COCA corpus and the Corpus of Historical American English – the COHA corpus as data source, it presents a case study of the just me construction, i.e. the use of Is it just me or\u2026 in raising a (rhetorical) question. Based on a constructional account proposed in Bai (2014), this paper mainly focuses on the pragmatic\/discursive functions of the just me construction, which is shown to indicate the speaker\u2019s subjective stance towards the propositional meaning of the utterance and to improve coherence in consideration of the truthfulness and politeness of the speech. The formal and functional properties of the just me construction feature a non-compositional structure, syntactic (and prosodic) independence, non-participation in propositional meaning and reduced semantic content, which are all key properties in defining and characterizing discourse markers (Heine 2013: 1209-1213). In conclusion, this paper proposes that the just me construction is best treated as a discourse marker.<\/p>\n<\/div>

Download Now!<\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div>
<\/div>
The Grounding Functions of German Reportives and Quotatives<\/div><\/div>
<\/div>

Jeroen Vanderbiesen<\/strong><\/p>\n

First, this paper sets up a framework to discuss the grounding function of evidentials. Drawing on Langacker (2014), it argues that \u2018source of knowledge\u2019 is the relevant grounding domain for evidentiality, and that it bases on an immediate vs. non-immediate contrast that is also at the core of the more established grounding domains \u2018reality\u2019 (at play in moods and modals) and \u2018time\u2019 (at play in tense). The immediate value is covered by direct evidentials, the non-immediate value by inferentials and reportives. Second, the paper draws on case studies of reportive sollen<\/em>-constructions and quotative present subjunctive constructions in German to illustrate grounding in terms of \u2018source of knowledge\u2019. Whereas sollen<\/em>-constructions code non-immediacy to the actual ground like all indirect evidentials, the present subjunctive is found to code immediacy to a surrogate ground. This contrast is motivated by functional differences between (evidential) reportives and (non-evidential) quotatives. The non-immediate branch of the \u2018source of knowledge\u2019 domain is thus concluded to have not only an opposition between \u2018inferring\u2019 and \u2018referring\u2019 grounding predications (based on the type of \u201caccess\u201d the conceptualiser has to the proposition), but within \u2018referring\u2019 also between \u2018reportive\u2019 and \u2018quotative\u2019 grounding predications (based on the salience of the actual ground).<\/p>\n<\/div>

Download Now!<\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div>
<\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Editors: Mieke Vandenbroucke, Tine Defour, Bart Defrancq, Stavros Kelepouris and Jonah Rys<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"parent":2863,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7443","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","bnm-entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7443"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13423,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7443\/revisions\/13423"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}