Czech evidential markers and their application in publicistic texts. The case of údajně-údajný

Abstract

Using the Czech national corpus, the article shows the growth of evidential markers in Czech. Focusing on the expressions údajný and údajně, it uses the excerpts from Czech daily newspapers to demonstrate varying usage of the expressions and their ambiguity in the context of publicist texts.

Keywords

• evidential markers
• publicist style
• corpus
• alleged