How Epistemic Modifiers Emerge

How Epistemic Modifiers Emerge PDF Author: Jakob Maché
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110411024
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 602

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Book Description
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.