Evidentiality in German : linguistic realization and regularities in grammaticalization /
The book is a comprehensive study of the evidential system in German. It focuses on the constructions scheinen 'seem', drohen 'threaten', versprechen 'promise' + zu-infinitive, and werden 'become' + infinitive. The main idea is that with the diachronic develop...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
De Gruyter Mouton,
©2010.
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Colección: | Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ;
228. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter; Table of contents; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Evidentiality
- definitions and delimitations; Chapter 3. Evidentiality and modality
- drawing the lines; Chapter 4. Grammar and grammaticalization; Chapter 5. Scales and scenarios of grammaticalization; Chapter 6. The four evidential constructions in present-day German; Chapter 7. Intermediate summary; Chapter 8. Diachronic corpus study of the four constructions; Chapter 9. Summary: the diachrony of the four constructions; Chapter 10. Summary and outlook; Backmatter.