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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam Rodopi 2011
Series:Cahiers Chronos 23
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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
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 and Japanese), on the other. The Antwerp edition's special conference topic was the interaction between tense and modality, of which some of the papers collected in this volume also testify. The volume covers a wide range of languages and topics. Specific topics include: the distinction between root
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (174 pages)
ISBN:9042032693
9042032707
9789042032699
9789042032705

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