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This volume is a selection of papers presented at the 7th Chronos colloquium in Antwerp (2006), which deal with the expression of modality (in a wide sense), by modal and semi-modal verbs (in Germanic and Romance languages), on the one hand, and by other markers (in languages like Turkish, Tibetan a...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Autres auteurs: Mortelmans, Tanja, Mortelmans, Jesse, De Mulder, Walter
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2011.
Collection:Cahiers Chronos ; 23.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Modals and the present perfect
  • Constraints on the meanings of modal auxiliaries in counterfactual clauses
  • Non-root past modals The Italian modal dovere in the conditional: future reference, evidentiality and argumentation
  • The German evidential constructions and their origins: a corpus based analysis
  • Adverbs at the interface of tense, aspect and modality: evidence from Turkish
  • Epistemic modalities and evidentiality in Standard Spoken Tibetan
  • Evidential extensions of aspecto-temporal forms in Japanese from a typological perspective
  • Fake past and covert emotive modality.