Anne Jäger

List of John Benjamins publications in which Anne Jäger is involved.

Article

Jäger, Anne 2013 The emergence of modal meanings from haben with zu-infinitives in Old High German Comparative Studies in Early Germanic Languages: With a focus on verbal categories, Diewald, Gabriele, Leena Kahlas-Tarkka and Ilse Wischer (eds.), pp. 151–168 | Article

The grammaticalisation path from possession to obligation which describes the development of haben to a marker of modality is well-established (cf. Heine/Kuteva 2002), but opinions differ on when exactly these modal readings came about. Haspelmath (1989) argues for a dating no earlier than Middle… read more