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How Epistemic Modifiers Emerge

  • Jakob Maché
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2019
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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.

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Jakob Maché, Obáfémi Awólówò University Ilé-Ifè, Nigeria.

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    Frontmatter

    I
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    Acknowledgements

    VII
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    Contents

    IX
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    List of Tables

    XIII
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    Abbreviations

    XV
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    1. Introduction

    1
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    2. Modal verbs: A class struggle

    8
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    3. The nature of epistemic modality

    280
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    4. Twenty-one commandments for epistemic modality

    334
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    5. Reportative and evidential modal operators

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    6. Anchoring the deictic centre

    518
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    7. On black magic: A diachronic explanation

    541
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    8. Summary

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    Primary sources

    555
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    References

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    Author index

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    Subject index

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eBook published on:
March 4, 2019
eBook ISBN:
9783110411027
Hardcover published on:
March 4, 2019
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110400564
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Front matter:
15
Main content:
596
Tables:
10
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110411027
eBook ISBN: 9783110411027
Hardcover ISBN: 9783110400564
Keywords for this book
Diachronic Summary of the Discussion on German Modal Verbs; Comprehensive Corpus Study based on the DeReKo (German Reference Corpus; 2 Bio. Tokens); Analysis of the Development of Epistemic Modifiers
Audience(s) for this book
Linguists, Researchers and (Foreign Language) Students interested in German Grammar
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