A CORPUS-BASED STUDY OF PREPOSITIONAL GROUPS WITH EVIDENTIAL MEANING "REPORTIVE EVIDENTIALITY" IN GERMAN PRESS

Abstract
The paper presents corpus analysis of prepositional groups with semantics «information», «statements», «report» which have evidential meaning «reportive evidentiality». Data were collected from German press corpuses from 2000 to 2016. The analysis has shown that prepositional groups with the noun «Angabe(n)» are used for reporting of official and statistical data. Prepositional groups with nouns «Bericht(e)», «Information(en)» most often refer to German press. Prepositional groups with the nouns «Information(en)», «Meldung(en)» often indicate lack of evidentiary support and informality of information.

Keywords: corpus-based study, evidentiality, reportive evidentiality, German press, German language, prepositional groups