“It Seemed to Me It Might Be True”
Formal and Functional Variation of “Seem”-patterns in Munro’s Stories
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https://doi.org/10.13136/2281-4582/2023.i21.1301Parole chiave:
Seem, evidenzialità, modalità, soggettività, narrazione.Abstract
Il contributo offre una disamina della variazione formale e funzionale del verbo seem nei primi racconti di Munro. Partendo dallo studio di Aijmer (2009), si indagano le valenze semantiche del verbo seem (evidenziale, modale, soggettiva, intersoggettiva) in relazione alle molteplici costruzioni formali (seem + agg. o sost., seem to, seem that, seem like, seem as if, seem parentetico). Nel complesso, l’uso del verbo seem configura delle istanze narrative incerte e instabili sul piano epistemico.
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