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Modality has become a much-discussed concept in recent years. However, more often than not, work in this area is carried out on an exclusively one-language basis, to the detriment both of theory and description.§This volume contains papers from the 1993 International Symposium on Linguistics in Tromso, Norway, which was devoted exclusively to questions of Germanic linguistics, where modality lends itself particularly well to comparative study both synchronically and diachronically. The papers contained in this volume throw light on a great many aspects of modality and subjectivity in one or more Germanic languages. They represent a wide interpretation of the term modality, including discourse modality, subjectivity, various types of speaker-orientation, pragmatic aspects, etc.

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• Full title: Modality in Germanic Languages
• Subtitle: Historical and Comparative Perspectives
• Author: Toril Swan, Olaf J. Westvik
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 325
• EAN: 9783110143348
• ISBN: 3110143348
• ID: 09277166
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Weight: 617 g
• Dimensions: 26 × 155 × 230 mm
• Date of publishing: 11. December 1996

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