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Researcher

Patrick Dendale

  • Research Expertise:1) Linguistic (distributional, semantic, pragmatic) analysis of mainly French data : evidential and epistemico-modal markers (tenses, verbs, prepositions, adverbs, ...), reported speech markers, tenses (modal-evidential uses of the conditional, futur tense), spatial prepositions, pairs of synonyms. 2) Epistemological and methodological study of linguistic notions (and there mutual relations) like : evidentiality and epistemic modality (notional differences, identification criteria for markers), enunciative commitment (conceptions), dialogism or linguistics polyphony (theories).
  • Keywords:PREPOSITIONS, EVIDENTIALITY, MODALITY, FRENCH LINGUISTICS, COMMITMENT, POLYPHONY, FRENCH LANGUAGE, Language and literature (incl. information, documentation, library and archive sciences)
  • Disciplines:French language, Discourse studies, Grammar, Lexicology, Pragmatics, Semantics, Synchronic linguistics
  • Research techniques:Corpusanalysis
  • Users of research expertise:French linguists, journalists, students