Double face evidentials in German: Reportative ‘sollen’ and ‘wollen’ in embedded contexts
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It is well known that the German modal verbs ‘sollen’ and ‘wollen’ have evidential (reportative) uses, illustrated in (1), but to date there is no satisfactory formal semantic account of these uses: Most existing accounts focus on unembedded occurrences of these verbs and derive incorrect predictions for the embedded cases. Based on corpus data and a survey study, it will be argued that ‘sollen’ and ‘wollen’ introduce a reportative presupposition, similar to the reportative subjunctive (Fabricius-Hansen and Sæbø 2004), and a binding-case assertion.
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