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Covert Patterns of Modality.

This typological overview compares the degree to which different languages have means to give expression to modality (possibility, necessity) Otherout lexical and direct inflectional means. The criterial patterns derive from a variety of languages such as German, English, Chinese, French, Scandinavi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Abraham, Werner
Otros Autores: Leiss, Elisabeth
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • TABLE OF CONTENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; PART I; (INTER)SUBJECTIFICATION OR FOREIGN CONSCIOUSNESS /OTHER'S MIND ALIGNMENT AS SYNCHRONIC AND DIACHRONIC CONCEPTS OF CHANGE?; NOTES ON OVERT AND COVERT MODALITY IN ITALIAN AND ROMANIAN; COVERT MODALITY AND CONTEXT SHIFT; INDICATIVE VERB FORMS AS MEANS OF EXPRESSING MODALITY IN ROMANCE LANGUAGES; IMPERSONAL DATIVE CONSTRUCTIONS AS COVERT ROOT-MODALITY PATTERNS; ASPECTUAL PATTERNS OF COVERT CODING OF MODALITY IN GOTHIC AND OLD HIGH GERMAN; PART II; GERMAN WOHL; COVERT MODALS AND (NON- )IMPLICATIVE READINGS OF TOO/ENOUGH CONSTRUCTIONS.
  • COVERT MODALITY IN CHECHENSHARED KNOWLEDGE AND EPISTEMIC REDUCTIONISM; ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF EPISTEMIC 'FEAR' MARKERS; TOWARDS A COMPOSITE DEFINITION OF NOMINAL MODALITY; PART III; COVERT PATTERNS OF MODALITY IN TYPOLOGICAL COMPARISON; SUBJECT INDEX.