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Modality in Germanic languages : historical and comparative perspectives /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Swan, Toril
Otros Autores: Westvik, Olaf Jansen, 1943-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1997, ©1996.
Colección:Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 99.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • I think â€? an English modal particle
  • Dimensions of epistemicity in English, German, and Norwegian conditionals
  • The modal particle schon: Its syntax, semantics, and pragmatics
  • Negation and modality in the Germanic languages
  • Expressive sentence types â€? a contradiction in terms. The case of exclamation
  • Subjectification and the development of epistemic meaning: The case of promise and threaten
  • On the use of brauchen versus mÃ?ssen
  • Some central pragmatic functions of the Norwegian particles altsÃÆ and nemlig