How epistemic modifiers emerge
This book delivers the first comprehensive study on German modal verbs which summarises and critically reflects the discussion of the last 500 years, checks these findings against large corpus data and is accessible to the English reader. It is shown that non-epistemic modal verbs modify events, whe...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin
De Gruyter Mouton,
2019.
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| Series: | Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ;
292. Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 292. |
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| Online Access: | EBSCOhost Перейти в каталог НБ ТГУ |
| Summary: | This book delivers the first comprehensive study on German modal verbs which summarises and critically reflects the discussion of the last 500 years, checks these findings against large corpus data and is accessible to the English reader. It is shown that non-epistemic modal verbs modify events, whereas their epistemic counterparts modify the proposition, and how the latter developed from the former. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| ISBN: | 9783110411126 3110411121 |