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Modality in Germanic languages : historical and comparative perspectives / edited by Toril Swan, Olaf Jansen Westvik.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Swan, Toril.
- Series:
- Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 99
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Germanic languages--Modality.
- Germanic languages.
- Germanic languages--Grammar.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 319 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- Reprint 2011
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1997, c1996.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- No detailed description available for "Modality in Germanic Languages".
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Preface
- Contents
- I think - an English modal particle / Aijmer, Karin
- Dimensions of epistemicity in English, German and Norwegian conditionals / Leirbukt, Oddleif
- The modal particle schon: Its syntax, semantics, and pragmatics / Ormelius-Sandblom, Elisabet
- Negation and modality in the Germanic languages / Palmer, Frank R.
- Expressive sentence types - a contradiction in terms. The case of exclamation / Rosengren, Inger
- Subjectification and the development of epistemic meaning: The case of promise and threaten / Traugott, Elizabeth Closs
- On the use of brauchen versus müssen / Ulvestad, Bjarne
- Some central pragmatic functions of the Norwegian particles altså and nemlig / Vaskó, Ildikó / Fretheim, Thorstein
- On narrative declarative VI sentences in German / Önnerfors, Olaf
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9783110889932
- 3110889935
- OCLC:
- 979955529
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