TY  - BOOK
AU  - Maché,Jakob
TI  - How Epistemic Modifiers Emerge
T2  - Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ,
SN  - 9783110400564
U1  - 400 
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston
PB  - De Gruyter Mouton
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Analysis of the Development of Epistemic Modifiers
KW  - Comprehensive Corpus Study based on the DeReKo (German Reference Corpus, 2 Bio. Tokens)
KW  - Diachronic Summary of the Discussion on German Modal Verbs
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110411027
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110411027
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110411027/original
ER  -