The Fate of Mood and Modality in Language Death: Evidence from Minor Finnic 9783110524086, 9783110521856

Research into the “grammar of language death” is often biased toward formal processes (e.g. paradigmatic levelling). In

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The Fate of Mood and Modality in Language Death: Evidence from Minor Finnic
9783110524086, 9783110521856

In a long dead language isolate such as Hurrian, grammatical studies are replete with difficulties. The paucity of mater

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This collective volume contains a selection of research contributions, presented at the 30th Deutscher Romanistentag[Ger

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First published in 1995. Part of the library of Arabic Linguistics series which devotes itself to all issues of Arabic l

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Traces the development of subjunctive use across the Old English, Middle English, and Early Modern English periods Uses

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Can language directly access what is true, or is the truth judgment affected by the subjective, perhaps even solipsistic

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Over the past several decades, linguistic theorizing of tense, aspect, and mood (TAM), along with a strongly growing bod

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Aspects of modality and ellipsis have become prominent in theoretical linguistics over the last years. What has remained

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This book is a cross-linguistic and interdisciplinary exploration of modality within systemic functional linguistics (SF

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This book presents a first comprehensive overview of existing research on information structure in sign languages. Furth

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