Format:
1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 366 S.).
ISBN:
978-3-11-024069-6
,
978-3-11-024103-7
Series Statement:
Trends in linguistics 228
Note:
Enth. Literaturangaben und Register. - Biographical note: Gabriele Diewald and Elena Smirnova, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany. - Main 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. - 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
Language:
English
Keywords:
Deutsch
;
Verb
;
scheinen
;
drohen
;
versprechen
;
werden
;
Grammatikalisation
DOI:
10.1515/9783110241037
Author information:
Smirnova, Elena 1978-
Author information:
Diewald, Gabriele 1960-
