| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 572 pages) : illustrations |
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Empirical approaches to language typology ; 44 |
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Empirical approaches to language typology ; 44
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| Contents |
Modals in Indo-European languages (Western branch) -- Modals in the Germanic languages / Tanja Mortelmans, Kasper Boye, and Johan van der Auwera -- Modals in Irish / Peter McQuillan -- Modals in the Romance languages / Bert Cornillie [and others] -- Modals in Greek / Anastasios Tsangalidis -- Modals in Indo-European languages (Eastern branch) -- Modals in the Slavonic languages / Juliane Besters-Dilger, Ana Drobnjaković, and Björn Hansen -- Modals in Baltic / Axel Holvoet -- Modals in Albanian / Walter Breu -- Modality in Romani / Viktor Elšík and Yaron Matras -- Modals in non-Indo-European languages -- The grammaticalisation of modal auxiliaries in Maltese and Arabic vernaculars of the Mediterranean area / Martine Vanhove, Catherine Miller, and Dominique Caubet -- Modal verbs in Balto-Finnic / Petar Kehayov and Reeli Torn-Leesik -- Modals in Hungarian / Erika Körtvély -- Mood and modality in Berber / Amina Mettouchi -- Modality in Basque / Alan R. King -- Modals in Turkic / Lars Johanson -- Modal constructions in the languages of Europe / Björn Hansen and Ferdinand de Haan |
| Summary |
This book is a collection of papers on modals in the languages of Europe, written by experts in the area of modality. It provides readers with a wealth of data and addresses the issues of under which circumstances modals are borrowed, from which linguistic materials they typically arise in these languages, and whether and how modals form a system which is separate from other word classes |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
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Modalität Linguistik
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Sprache
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| SUBJECT |
Europe -- Languages -- Modality
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| Subject |
Europe
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hansen, Björn, 1964-
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Haan, Ferdinand de, 1965-
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| ISBN |
9783110219210 |
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3110219212 |
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