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This comprehensive review and critical synthesis of research on modality focuses on formal theories within linguistics and related aspects of philosophical logic. It will be welcomed by students of linguistics at graduate level and above, as well as by researchers in philosophy, computational science, and related fields.

#KVHA:Modaliteit --- #KVHA:Taalkunde --- #KVHA:Semantiek --- Lexicology. Semantics --- Grammar --- Modality (Linguistics) --- Modality (Logic) --- Modal logic --- Logic --- Nonclassical mathematical logic --- Bisimulation --- Linguistics --- Modality (Linguistics). --- Modality (Logic).

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This book connects two linguistic phenomena, modality and subordinators, so that both are seen in a new light, each adding to the understanding of the other. It argues that general subordinators (or complementizers) denote propositional modality (otherwise expressed by moods such as the indicative-subjunctive and epistemic-evidential modal markers). The book explores the hypothesis both on a cross-linguistic and on a language-branch specific level (the Germanic languages). One obvious connection between the indicative-subjunctive distinction and subordinators is that the former is typically manifested in subordinate clauses. Furthermore, both the indicative-subjunctive and subordinators determine clause types. More importantly, however, it is shown, through data from various languages, that subordinators themselves often denote the indicative-subjunctive distinction. In the Germanic languages, there is variation in many clause types between both the indicative and the subjunctive and that and if depending on the speaker's and/or the subject's certainty of the truth of the proposition.

Grammar --- Modality (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Subordinate constructions --- 801.56 --- Syntaxis. Semantiek --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES --- General --- Languages & Literatures --- Philology & Linguistics --- Subordinate constructions. --- 801.56 Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Modality (Linguistics). --- Subordination (Linguistics) --- Linguistics --- Syntax --- Philology

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This book presents a selection of contributions to the workshop "Linguistic realization of evidentiality in European languages", held at the 30th Annual Convention of the German Society of Linguistics in Bamberg (February 27-29, 2008), and additional papers, which have been especially commissioned for this volume. Its main focus lies on providing further empirical evidence about languages that have various - lexical as well as grammatical - evidential expressions. The papers in this volume will offer a cross-linguistic perspective on this topic as they deal with a number of different language families and languages: Romance languages (French, Spanish, Italian), Germanic languages (Dutch, German, English, Icelandic), Baltic and Slavic languages, Greek, Basque, and Turkish.

Linguistics --- Evidentials (Linguistics) --- Typology (Linguistics) --- évidence --- Evidentialität --- Sprache --- Sprachtypologie --- Europa --- Bamberg <2008> --- Evidentials (Linguistics). --- Typology (Linguistics). --- Languages & Literatures --- Philology & Linguistics --- Evidentialität. --- Sprache. --- Sprachtypologie. --- Bamberg <2008>. --- Europa. --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Language and languages --- Linguistic typology --- Evidentiality (Linguistics) --- Typology --- Linguistic universals --- Modality (Linguistics) --- Semantics --- Classification --- Evidentiality. --- Language Typology. --- Linguistic Theories.

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This book is the first comprehensive survey of mood in the languages of Europe. It gives readers access to a collection of data on mood. Each article presents the mood system of a specific European language in a way that readers not familiar with this language are able to understand and to interpret the data. The articles contain information on the morphology and semantics of the mood system, the possible combinations of tense and mood morphology, and the possible uses of the non-indica­tive mood(s). The papers address the explanation of mood from an empirical and descriptive perspective. This book is of interest to scholars of mood and modality, language contact, and areal linguistics and typology.

Modality (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Mood. --- Grammar --- Linguistics --- Mode (Grammar) --- Mood (Grammar) --- Mood --- Verb --- Philology --- Grammaire comparée --- Modalité (linguistique) --- Grammaire comparative et générale --- Langues indo-européennes --- Grammaire comparée --- Modalité (linguistique) --- Grammaire comparative et générale --- Langues indo-européennes