Bjorn Hansen
List of John Benjamins publications in which Bjorn Hansen is involved.
Articles
2014 The syntax of modal polyfunctionality revisited: Evidence from the languages of Europe Modes of Modality: Modality, typology, and universal grammar, Leiss, Elisabeth and Werner Abraham (eds.), pp. 89–126 | Article
This paper deals with the semantics and the syntax of modal constructions from a cross-linguistic perspective. It focuses on the syntactic representation of modal polyfunctionality, usually understood as the semantic alternation between root and epistemic readings. This ambiguity is not an… read more
2010 Mood in Russian Mood in the Languages of Europe, Rothstein, Björn and Rolf Thieroff (eds.), pp. 325–341 | Article
2010 Mood in Polish Mood in the Languages of Europe, Rothstein, Björn and Rolf Thieroff (eds.), pp. 342–357 | Article