Modality in Germanic Languages
Subtitle: Historical and Comparative Perspectives (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs)
Contributors: Toril Swan (Editor); Olaf Jansen Westvik (Editor)
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter; De Gruyter Mouton
Published: June 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9783110143348
Subjects: Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure; Semantics (meaning); Language; Linguistics (Specific Aspects); Foreign Language Study; Foreign Language - Dictionaries / Phrase Books; Germanic & Scandinavian languages; German; General; Germanic Languages; Modality
First sentence: In 1983, Perkins described research on modality as "very similar to trying to move in an overcrowded room without treading on anyone else's feet" (1983:4).