Modality in Germanic Languages
Historical and Comparative Perspectives
1st Edition
Published on 11. December 1996
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Hardback
VI, 319 pages
978-3-11-014334-8 (ISBN)
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Reprint 2011
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin/Boston
Germany
Publishing group
de Gruyter Mouton
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Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
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Cloth over boards
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Height: 236 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
645 gr
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978-3-11-014334-8 (9783110143348)
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Content
I think - an English modal particle, Karin Aijmer; Dimensions of epistemicity in English, German, and Norwegian conditionals, Oddleif Leirbukt; The modal particle 'schon' - its syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, Elisabet Ormelius-Sandblom; Negation and modality in the Germanic languages, Frank R. Palmer; Expressive sentence types - a contradiction in terms - the case of exclamation, Inger Rosengren; Subjectification and the development of epistemic meaning - the case of promise and threaten, Elizabeth Closs Traugott; On the use of 'trauchen' versus 'mussen', Bjarne Ulvestad; Some central pragmatic functions of the Norwegian particles 'altsa' and 'nemlig', Ildiko Vasko, Thorstein Freheim; On narrative declarative 'VI-sentences' in German, Olaf Onnesdfors.