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Modals in the languages of Europe : a reference work /

This book is a collection of papers on modals in the languages of Europe, written by experts in the area of modality. It provides readers with a wealth of data and addresses the issues of under which circumstances modals are borrowed, from which linguistic materials they typically arise in these lan...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hansen, Björn, 1964-, Haan, Ferdinand de, 1965-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©2009.
Colección:Empirical approaches to language typology ; 44.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Modals in Indo-European languages (Western branch)
  • Modals in the Germanic languages / Tanja Mortelmans, Kasper Boye, and Johan van der Auwera
  • Modals in Irish / Peter McQuillan
  • Modals in the Romance languages / Bert Cornillie [and others]
  • Modals in Greek / Anastasios Tsangalidis
  • Modals in Indo-European languages (Eastern branch)
  • Modals in the Slavonic languages / Juliane Besters-Dilger, Ana Drobnjaković, and Björn Hansen
  • Modals in Baltic / Axel Holvoet
  • Modals in Albanian / Walter Breu
  • Modality in Romani / Viktor Elšík and Yaron Matras
  • Modals in non-Indo-European languages
  • The grammaticalisation of modal auxiliaries in Maltese and Arabic vernaculars of the Mediterranean area / Martine Vanhove, Catherine Miller, and Dominique Caubet
  • Modal verbs in Balto-Finnic / Petar Kehayov and Reeli Torn-Leesik
  • Modals in Hungarian / Erika Körtvély
  • Mood and modality in Berber / Amina Mettouchi
  • Modality in Basque / Alan R. King
  • Modals in Turkic / Lars Johanson
  • Modal constructions in the languages of Europe / Björn Hansen and Ferdinand de Haan.