Covert patterns of modality

著者

• Abraham, Werner
• Leiss, Elisabeth

書誌事項

Covert patterns of modality

edited by Werner Abraham and Elisabeth Leiss

Cambridge Scholars, 2012

注記

Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明・目次

内容説明

This typological overview compares the degree to which different languages have means to give expression to modality (possibility, necessity) without lexical and direct inflectional means. The criterial patterns derive from a variety of languages such as German, English, Chinese, French, Scandinavian, Italian, Romanian, Russian, Polish, and Gothic as well as Old High German. They encompass mainly the auxiliaries HAVE and BE, together with either an infinitival embedding of a full verb linked by the infinitival preposition TO, or other aspectual means. It is demonstrated that what appears as typical covert modal expressions in the Germanic languages, and the Indo-European ones in a wider sense, cannot be seen as a recurrent pattern in non-Indo-European languages. Yet, there are recurrent and plausible forms that allow for generalizations.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB19668744
• ISBN:
  • 9781443840590
• LCCN: 2012551814
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
• ページ数/冊数: viii, 443 p.
• 大きさ: 22 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : P299.M6
  • DC23 : 415
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Modality (Linguistics)
• リンク:
  • www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy14pdf05/2012551814.html