Modal Verbs in Germanic and Romance Languages

Editors

Johan van der Auwera

Patrick Dendale

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As of Volume 9 (1994/95) John Benjamins Publishing Company is the official publisher of the Belgian Journal of Linguistics, the annual publication of the Linguistic Society of Belgium. Each volume is topical and includes selected papers from the international meetings organised by the LSB.

[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 14] 2000. vi, 264 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 21 January 2011

https://doi.org/10.1075/bjl.14

Table of Contents

Introduction Johan van der Auwera and Patrick Dendale	v–vi
Metonymy and Metaphor in the Evolution of Modal Verbs: Evidence from Italo-Romance Delia Bentley	1–22
A Basic Semantic Template for Lexical and Grammaticalized Uses of the German Modals Gabriele Diewald	23–41
Null Modals in Germanic (and Romance): Infinitival Exclamatives Kleanthes K. Grohmann	43–61
From Need to Necessity: A Syntactic Path to Modality Jacqueline Guéron	63–87
The Semantics of Spanish Permission Sentences: A Dynamic Account Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach	89–113
Modal Verbs and the Expression of Futurity in English, French and Italian Paul Larreya	115–129
On the 'Evidential' Nature of the 'Epistemic' Use of the German Modals müssen and sollen Tanja Mortelmans	131–148
The Syntax of putea and its Mixed Typology Virginia Motapanyane and Larisa Avram	149–165
Some Issues about the Portuguese Modals dever and poder Fátima Oliveira	167–184
On the Modality of the English Verbs of Seeming Aurelija Usonienė	185–205
Motan in The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records Mieke Van Herreweghe	207–239
Epistemic prometer and Full Deontic Modal Verbs María Eugenia Vázquez Laslop	241–266

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