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How Epistemic Modifiers Emerge / Jakob Maché.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 292Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (XV, 596 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110400564
  • 9783110411126
  • 9783110411027
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 400
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Modal verbs: A class struggle -- 3. The nature of epistemic modality -- 4. Twenty-one commandments for epistemic modality -- 5. Reportative and evidential modal operators -- 6. Anchoring the deictic centre -- 7. On black magic: A diachronic explanation -- 8. Summary -- Primary sources -- References -- Author index -- Subject index
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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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9783110411027

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Modal verbs: A class struggle -- 3. The nature of epistemic modality -- 4. Twenty-one commandments for epistemic modality -- 5. Reportative and evidential modal operators -- 6. Anchoring the deictic centre -- 7. On black magic: A diachronic explanation -- 8. Summary -- Primary sources -- References -- Author index -- Subject index

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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