{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2025,12,3]],"date-time":"2025-12-03T18:03:37Z","timestamp":1764785017427},"reference-count":0,"publisher":"Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Letras","content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["Lingu\u00edstica"],"abstract":"<jats:p>Evidentiality or, following the French linguistic tradition, \u201cmediativity\u201d is a complex and controversial category, with an already extensive body of literature devoted to other languages and a few studies focusing on Portuguese. As a conceptual category, abstracting away from its linguistic means of expression, which is to some extent present in languages such as Portuguese that lack a specific grammatical system for its codification, evidentiality\/mediativity raises two main issues which are yet to be addressed: the first question concerns the definition of its status as  a  grammatical,  semantic  or  discursive  category  and  of  its  conceptual  basis,  traditionally  characterized  as  referring  to  the  source  of  information  for  the  propositional  content  of  the  utterance,  while  the  second  touches  upon  its  demarcation  with  respect  to  the  conceptual  category of epistemic modality. The aim of this study is to provide an answer to both questions from  a  cognitive-functional,  usage-based  perspective,  on  the  basis  of  two  grammaticalized  evidential\/mediative  markers  of  Portuguese,  namely  the  compound  form  of  the  future  and  the verb parecer \u2018seem\u2019 followed by a non-finite verb or a finite clause. We sustain the view that  evidentiality  provides  an  indication  about  the  source  and  reliability  of  the  information,  and  that  reliability  does  not  necessarily  involve  degrees  of  epistemic  speaker  commitment  or degrees of (un)certainty. While the reportative  evidential  uses  of  the  compound  form  of  the  future  in  Modern  European  Portuguese,  typical  of  news  reports,  and  of  parecer provide evidence for the relative independence of evidentiality in relation to epistemic modality, the inferential  evidential  uses  of  the  compound  future  and  of  parecer reveal  a  close  link,  and  even  a  partial  overlap,  between  evidentiality  and  epistemic  modality.  Both  reportative  and  inferential uses of these evidential markers contribute to the speaker\u2019s epistemic control in the discourse and speaker\u2019s intersubjective alignment. While the inferential uses of the compound future and of parecer stemmed from diachronic cognitive and pragmatic-discursive processes of subjectification,  the  reportative  uses  of  these  evidential  markers  resulted  from  diachronic  cognitive and pragmatic-discursive processes of intersubjectification.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.21747\/16466195\/ling2022v1a11","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,11,23]],"date-time":"2022-11-23T09:25:35Z","timestamp":1669195535000},"page":"263-294","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Evidencialidade\/mediatividade, modalidade epist\u00e9mica e (inter)subjetividade"],"prefix":"10.21747","volume":"1","author":[{"given":"Augusto Soares da","family":"Silva","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]}],"member":"9208","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022]]},"container-title":["Lingu\u00edstica: Revista de Estudos Lingu\u00edsticos da Universidade do Porto"],"original-title":[],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2022,11,23]],"date-time":"2022-11-23T09:25:49Z","timestamp":1669195549000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/ojs.letras.up.pt\/index.php\/EL\/article\/view\/12800\/11657"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2022]]},"references-count":0,"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.21747\/16466195\/ling2022v1a11","relation":{},"ISSN":["1646-6195"],"issn-type":[{"value":"1646-6195","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2022]]}}}