论主观性标记的语义不自足特征

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Starting from three reputed subjectivity categories, i.e., modality, cognitive predicates and first person subject, the paper attempts to assess whether subjectivity markers are semantically sufficient. It is finds that subjective context plays an important role in the foregrounding of subjective semantics. Modality cannot be linked with subjectivity in a simplistic way; only epistemic modality expresses subjectivity in the strict senses, and that the realization of its subjectivity still relies on subjective contexts. Verbs of cognition and first person pronoun tend to complement each other in the expression of subjectivity, and further subjective contexts are needed to ensure the subjectivity reading of this combination. This indicates that the so-called subjectivity markers exhibit semantic insufficiency, tending to rely on the foregrounding of subjective contexts in their expression of subjectivity