Modality in Germanic languages : historical and comparative perspectives
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Modality in Germanic languages : historical and comparative perspectives
(Trends in linguistics, . Studies and monographs ; 99)
M. de Gruyter, 1997, c1996
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
Modality has become a much-discussed concept in recent years. However, more often than not, work in this area is carried out on an exclusively one-language basis, to the detriment both of theory and description. This volume contains papers from the 1993 International Symposium of Linguistics, held in Tromso, which was devoted to questions of Germanic linguistics, where modality lends itself particularly well to comparative study. The papers represent a wide interpreation of of the term modality, including discourse modality, subjectivity, various types of speaker-orientation, and pragmatic aspects.
Table of Contents
- I think - an English modal particle, Karin Aijmer
- Dimensions of epistemicity in English, German, and Norwegian conditionals, Oddleif Leirbukt
- The modal particle 'schon' - its syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, Elisabet Ormelius-Sandblom
- Negation and modality in the Germanic languages, Frank R. Palmer
- Expressive sentence types - a contradiction in terms - the case of exclamation, Inger Rosengren
- Subjectification and the development of epistemic meaning - the case of promise and threaten, Elizabeth Closs Traugott
- On the use of 'trauchen' versus 'mussen', Bjarne Ulvestad
- Some central pragmatic functions of the Norwegian particles 'altsa' and 'nemlig', Ildiko Vasko, Thorstein Freheim
- On narrative declarative 'VI-sentences' in German, Olaf Onnesdfors.
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