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Covert Patterns of Modality (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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Covert Patterns of Modality (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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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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