How epistemic modifiers emerge
- Responsibility
- Jakob Maché.
- Publication
- Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, [2019]
- Physical description
- x, 586 pages ; 24 cm.
- Series
- Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 292.
Description
Creators/Contributors
- Author/Creator
- Maché, Jakob, author.
Contents/Summary
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 559-576) and indexes.
- Contents
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- Acknowledgements
- List of Tables
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Aims
- Method
- Theoretical considerations
- Results in a nutshell
- Modal verbs : a class struggle
- Traditional criteria
- Morphological criteria
- Syntactic criteria
- Semantic criteria
- Conclusions
- Case studies
- Können
- Müssen
- Wollen
- Dürfen
- Dürfte
- Sollen
- Mögen
- Möchten
- Brauchen
- Werden
- Scheinen and dünken
- Drohen, versprechen and verheissen
- Summary
- The origin of the term Modalverb
- Early grammars : a morphological classification
- Karl Ferdinand Becker (1836) : From a morphological classification to a grammatical one
- Blatz (1896)
- George O. Curme
- Braune, Paul and Behaghel : the decline of the semantic motivation
- Gunnar Bech (1949)
- The Duden grammar
- Summary
- The nature of epistemic modality
- Types of modification
- Circumstantial modal verbs as event modifiers
- The case of can
- Ambiguities across categories
- Conditionals
- Causal clauses
- Causal wo-clauses
- Corrective uses of obwohl, wobei and wiewohl
- Contrastive während-clauses
- So lange-clauses
- Bevor-clauses
- Final damit-clauses
- Addressee-oriented free relative clauses
- Adverbial infinitives
- VP adverbs
- Locative modifiers
- Noch einmal
- Past operator
- Meta-communicative why
- Declarative questions
- Summary
- Ambiguities across languages
- Critical data
- Quantificational modal verbs
- Intensional subjects
- Veronika Ehrich's counter example
- Summary
- Twenty-one commandments for epistemic modality
- No infinitives
- No past participle
- No past tense
- Excluded from the scope of a counterfactual operator
- Excluded from nominalisations
- No verbless directional phrase complements
- No VP-anaphora
- No separation in wh-clefts
- May not bear sentence accent
- Excluded from the scope of negation
- Excluded from polarity questions
- Excluded from wh-questions
- Excluded from imperatives
- Excluded from optatives
- Excluded from complement clauses
- Excluded from event-related causal clauses
- Excluded from the antecedent of an event-related conditional
- Excluded from temporal clauses
- Excluded from restrictive relative clauses
- Excluded from the scope of a quantifier
- No assent, dissent
- Objective and subjective epistemic modality : a reassessment
- Lyon's original motivation
- Further advancements in the study of 'objective' epistemic modality
- The role of public evidence
- Objective epistemic modal verbs do not constitute a consistent class
- 'Objective' modal verbs that are practical possibility or quantificational modal verbs
- 'Objective' epistemic modal verbs that are 'subjective'
- Conclusions
- Summary
- Reportative and evidential modal operators
- Reportative wollen and sollen
- Infinitives
- Past participles
- Nominalisations
- Optatives
- Past tense
- Questions
- Event related conditional clauses
- Summary
- So-called 'evidentials' drohen, versprechen and scheinen
- Past participles
- Event related conditional clauses
- Past tense
- Summary
- Anchoring the deictic centre
- The speaker, the addressee and arguments
- Declarative speech acts
- Interrogative speech acts
- Complement clauses
- Reportative modal verbs
- Summary
- The deictic centre
- The modal source
- The Condition on Deictic Centres
- A subtle refinement
- A unified analysis for epistemic and reportative modality
- Hierarchy of Salience
- Operators which impose selectional restrictions
- Alternative analyses
- Summary
- On black magic : a diachronic explanation
- Epistemic modal verbs in Early New High German
- The Rule of Accommodation as a driving force of language change
- Summary
- Summary
- Primary sources
- References
- Author index
- Subject index.
Subjects
- Subject
- German language > Modality.
- Epistemic logic.
Bibliographic information
- Publication date
- 2019
- Series
- Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs, 1861-4302 ; Volume 292
- Note
- Revised thesis (doctoral)--Freie Universität Berlin, 2013.
- ISBN
- 9783110400564 hardbound : EUR99.95
- 3110400561 hardbound : EUR99.95
- 9783110411126 EPUB
- 9783110411027 PDF
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