Modal Verbs in Germanic and Romance Languages
Editors
As of Volume 9 (1994/95) John Benjamins Publishing Company is the official publisher of the Belgian Journal of Linguistics, the annual publication of the Linguistic Society of Belgium. Each volume is topical and includes selected papers from the international meetings organised by the LSB.
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 14] 2000. vi, 264 pp.
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Table of Contents
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IntroductionJohan van der Auwera and Patrick Dendale | pp. v–vi
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Metonymy and Metaphor in the Evolution of Modal Verbs: Evidence from Italo-RomanceDelia Bentley | pp. 1–22
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A Basic Semantic Template for Lexical and Grammaticalized Uses of the German ModalsGabriele Diewald | pp. 23–41
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Null Modals in Germanic (and Romance): Infinitival ExclamativesKleanthes K. Grohmann | pp. 43–61
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From Need to Necessity: A Syntactic Path to ModalityJacqueline Guéron | pp. 63–87
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The Semantics of Spanish Permission Sentences: A Dynamic AccountJavier Gutiérrez-Rexach | pp. 89–113
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Modal Verbs and the Expression of Futurity in English, French and ItalianPaul Larreya | pp. 115–129
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On the 'Evidential' Nature of the 'Epistemic' Use of the German Modals müssen and sollenTanja Mortelmans | pp. 131–148
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The Syntax of putea and its Mixed TypologyVirginia Motapanyane and Larisa Avram | pp. 149–165
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Some Issues about the Portuguese Modals dever and poderFátima Oliveira | pp. 167–184
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On the Modality of the English Verbs of SeemingAurelia Usonienė | pp. 185–205
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Motan in The Anglo-Saxon Poetic RecordsMieke Van Herreweghe | pp. 207–239
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Epistemic prometer and Full Deontic Modal VerbsMaría Eugenia Vázquez Laslop | pp. 241–266
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