Modality in Germanic Languages
Historical and Comparative Perspectives
1st Edition
Published on 24. June 2011
VI, 319 pages
978-3-11-088993-2 (ISBN)
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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.
