RT Article
T1 Illocution and Speaker Intent in Coptic: the Case of the ‘Autofocal’ Second Tenses
JF Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde
VO 142
IS 2
SP 205
OP 216
A1 Uljas, Sami
LA English
YR 2015
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/196687992X
AB 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 often, defective in terms of its information value. It is shown that cross-linguistic parallels to these uses are readily forthcoming from other languages, where propositions of similar sort are regularly coded with subjunctive and corresponding forms.
K1 Speech Acts
K1 Illocutionary Force
K1 Assertion
K1 second tenses
K1 Coptic language
DO 10.1515/zaes-2015-0016