Modality in Germanic languages: historical and comparative perspectives
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Main Author: Swan, Toril 1945- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin Mouton de Gruyter 1997, ©1996
Series:Trends in linguistics 99
Subjects:
Online Access:FAW01
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Item Description: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""
Physical Description:vi, 319 pages :
ISBN:9783110889932
3110889935
3110143348
9783110143348

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