Modals in the Languages of Europe: A Reference Work: 44 (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT], 44) - Hardcover

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This book is a collection of papers on modals in the languages of Europe, written by experts in the area of modality. It provides readers with a wealth of data and addresses the issues of under which circumstances modals are borrowed, from which linguistic materials they typically arise in these languages, and whether and how modals form a system which is separate from other word classes.

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Björn Hansen, University of Regensburg, Germany; Ferdinand de Haan, University of Arizona, USA.

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