Search Books

Evidentiality in German: Linguistic Realization and Regularities in Grammaticalization (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [Tilsm])

Author Gabriele Diewald
Publisher De Gruyter Mouton
📄 Viewing lite version Full site ›
🌎 Shop on Amazon — choose country
⌛ 🇫🇷 France pricing being fetched… Prices will appear once fetched — usually within a few minutes.
Share:
Book Details
ISBN / ASIN3110240696
ISBN-139783110240696
MarketplaceFrance 🇫🇷

Description

The book is a comprehensive study of the evidential system in German. It focuses on the constructions scheinen ´;seem´, drohen ´;threaten´, versprechen ´;promise´ + zu-infinitive,and werden ´;become´ + infinitive. The main idea is that with the diachronic development of these constructions we are witnessing the genesis of a new grammatical category in German.