Illocution and Speaker Intent in Coptic: the Case of the ‘Autofocal’ Second Tenses
It is suggested that the so-called ‘autofocal’ second tenses attested in Coptic are characterised by uniform illocutionary properties. In most and perhaps all cases these constructions seem to appear when speakers view the propositional content of what is said as unacceptable, invalid, or, less ofte...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2015
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Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde
Year: 2015, Volume: 142, Issue: 2, Pages: 205-216 |
| Further subjects: | B
Assertion (Linguistics)
B Illocutionary Force B Coptic language B second tenses B Speech Acts |
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