Modality in Germanic languages historical and comparative perspectives - Swan, Toril 1945- (Mouton de Gruyter, 1997)
Includes bibliographical references
""Preface""; ""I think - an English modal particle""; ""Dimensions of epistemicity in English, German, and Norwegian conditionals""; ""The modal particle schon: Its syntax, semantics, and pragmatics""; ""Negation and modality in the Germanic languages""; ""Expressive sentence types - a contradiction in terms. The case of exclamation""; ""Subjectification and the development of epistemic meaning: The case of promise and threaten""; ""On the use of brauchen versus müssen""; ""Some central pragmatic functions of the Norwegian particles altsÃ¥ and nemlig""