How Epistemic Modifiers Emerge

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This book delivers the first comprehensive study on German modal verbs which summarises and critically reflects the discussion of the last 500 years, checks these findings against large corpus data and is accessible to the English reader. It is shown that non-epistemic modal verbs modify events, whereas their epistemic counterparts modify the proposition, and how the latter developed from the former.

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Jakob Maché

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Diachronic Summary of the Discussion on German Modal Verbs Comprehensive Corpus Study based on the DeReKo (German Reference Corpus 2 Bio. Tokens) Analysis of the Development of Epistemic Modifiers

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