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Modality and subordinators /
This book connects two linguistic phenomena, modality and subordinators, so that both are seen in a new light, each adding to the understanding of the other. It argues that general subordinators (or complementizers) denote propositional modality (otherwise expressed by moods such as the indicative-s...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©2010.
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| Colección: | Studies in language companion series ;
v. 116. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book connects two linguistic phenomena, modality and subordinators, so that both are seen in a new light, each adding to the understanding of the other. It argues that general subordinators (or complementizers) denote propositional modality (otherwise expressed by moods such as the indicative-subjunctive and epistemic-evidential modal markers). The book explores the hypothesis both on a cross-linguistic and on a language-branch specific level (the Germanic languages). One obvious connection between the indicative-subjunctive distinction and subordinators is that the former is typically ma. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 341 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789027288608 9027288607 9027205833 9789027205834 |
| ISSN: | 0165-7763 ; |