@inproceedings{tarpomanova-aleksova-2022-evidential,
    title = "Evidential strategies and grammatical marking in clauses governed by verba dicendi in {B}ulgarian",
    author = "Tarpomanova, Ekaterina  and
      Aleksova, Krasimira",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2022)",
    month = sep,
    year = "2022",
    address = "Sofia, Bulgaria",
    publisher = "Department of Computational Linguistics, IBL -- BAS",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/add-emnlp-2024-awards/2022.clib-1.9/",
    pages = "81--88",
    abstract = "Th{\cyre} study explores the interaction between the participants in the communication process with respect to their knowledge about the situation presented in the utterance when transforming direct into indirect speech using a verbum dicendi. The speaker has a choice between firsthand (indicative tenses) which by definition denotes a witnessed situation and non-firsthand which presents the situation as non-witnessed. The interplay between the grammatical marking and the speaker`s evidential strategy is analyzed by applying a corpus method. The data of the Bulgarian National Corpus are used to detect the preferences for a given strategy considering also the grammatical person which indicates the level of knowledge of the communicants about the situation: the 1st person shows the strong knowledge of the speaker, the 2nd person is related to the strong knowledge of the listener, and the 3rd person is associated with a weak knowledge of both participants. Illustrative examples representative for a given situation are extracted from the corpus and subjected to a context analysis."
}