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Several modes of encoding contribute to such modalities of expression: word order, subordinating subjunctions, sentences that are subordinated but nevertheless occur autonomously, and attitudinal discourse adverbs which, far beyond lexical adverbials of modality, allow the speaker and the listener to presuppose full agreement, partial agreement under presupposed conditions, or negotiation of common ground. 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In languages such as German (and other Germanic languages outside of English), this may happen in covert terms. Main categories used for this purpose are modal adverbials (\"modal particles\") and modal verbs. Epistemic uses of modal verbs (like German sollen) cover evidential (reportative) information simultaneously providing the source of the information.    Methodologically, description and explanation rest on Karl Bühler's concept of Origo as well as Roman Jakobson's concept of shifter. Typologically, East Asian languages such as Japanese pursue these semasiological fundaments far more closely than the European languages. In particular, Japanese has to mark the source of a statement in the declarative mode such that the reliability may be assessed by the hearer.    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Im Zentrum steht die Frage, welche Gewissheitsgrade für den Hörer diese Wortarten vermitteln, wieweit dabei Verhandlungsstrategien vom Sprecher gegenüber dem Hörer eingesetzt werden und wieso solche Wortarten nicht in allen Sprachen in gleicher Weise lexikalisch oder grammatisch vertreten sind. Da Modalität im Deutschen weit overter kodiert wird als in den meisten nichtgermanischen Sprachen, eignet sich die Untersuchung der Funktion von Modalität im Deutschen besonders gut zur Ermittlung eines funktionalen Nenners von Modalität, der sich als Leitfaden zur Ermittlung von bislang nicht wahrgenommenen kovert kodierten Modalitätsphänomenen in anderen Sprachen nutzen lässt. Auf diese Weise lässt sich zunehmend ein Verständnis der komplexesten und am wenigsten verstandenen grammatischen Kategorien der menschlichen Sprache ermitteln.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51187645284625,"sku":"NIN9783110331981","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/3110331985.jpg?v=1751064138"},{"product_id":"focus-on-germanic-typology-book-werner-abraham-9783050041063","title":"Focus on Germanic Typology","description":"Aus dem Inhalt: Werner Abraham und Gert Webelhuth Words of dedication for Hartmut Czepluch Werner Abraham Introduction John H. McWhorter What happened to English? Halldór Ármann Sigurdsson Agree and Agreement - Evidence from Germanic Jóhanna Barddal The semantics of the impersonal construction in Icelandic, German and Faroese: beyond thematic roles Cedric Boeckx und Kleanthes K. Grohmann Left dislocation in Germanic Jac C. Conradie Verb sequence and placement: Afrikaans and Dutch compared Hartmut Czepluch ((Sterbezeichen)) Reflections on the form and function of passives in English and German Molly Diesing The upper functional domain in Yiddish Bridget Drinka Präteritumschwund: evidence for areal difussion Werner Abraham The European demise of the simple past and the emergence of the periphrastic perfect: Areal diffusion or natural, autonomous evolution under parsing facilitation? 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Mit dieser Sammlung von dialektsyntaktischen Arbeiten soll ein Anfang gemacht werden, dialektale Varietaten des Deutschen, Friesischen, Jiddischen und Niederlandischen hinsichtlich neuerer Entwicklungen der Syntaxtheorie zu untersuchen. Den theoretischen Rahmen bildet bei der Mehrzahl der Beitrage die Prinzipien- und Parametertheorie, die sich in der vergleichenden Syntaxforschung bewahrt hat. 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Common to all is a theoretical discussion against the background of Chomskyan minimalism (1993) and more recent developments of it (Kayne 1993, Chomsky 1995), all of which make language typology comparisons an interesting proposition. Some of the articles are critical of certain aspects of these theoretical approaches. 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