Auf Anfrage
Buch (Hardcover): Fachbuch
Covert Patterns of Modality
Produkt bewerten
Verlag:
Cambridge Scholars Publishing Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: RPKZL6Y
EAN: 9781443840590
Auf Anfrage
CHF 94.50
Beschreibung
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.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Elisabeth Leiss
- Werner Abraham
Zielgruppe
- Postgraduate
- Research & Scholarly
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2012
Format
- Buch (Hardcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 450