Evidential Auxiliaries as Non–reliability Markers in Bulgarian Parliamentary Speech

Ekaterina Tarpomanova


Abstract
In the evidentiality system of Bulgarian, there are three evidential auxiliaries that form complex verbal forms. The paper analyzes their potential to mark non-reliability in political discourse by using the ParlaMint-BG corpus of parliamentary debates. The method of the study includes detection, categorisation and context analysis of the evidentials formed with auxiliaries. The results prove that the evidential auxiliaries function as markers of non-reliability, especially in argumentative text type such as political discourse.
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2024.clib-1.16
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Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2024)
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September
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2024
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Sofia, Bulgaria
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Department of Computational Linguistics, Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
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Ekaterina Tarpomanova. 2024. Evidential Auxiliaries as Non–reliability Markers in Bulgarian Parliamentary Speech. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2024), pages 157–165, Sofia, Bulgaria. Department of Computational Linguistics, Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
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