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This book connects two linguistic phenomena, modality and subordinators, so that both are seen in a new light, each adding to the understanding of the other. It argues that general subordinators (or complementizers) denote propositional modality (otherwise expressed by moods such as the indicative-subjunctive and epistemic-evidential modal markers). The book explores the hypothesis both on a cross-linguistic and on a language-branch specific level (the Germanic languages). One obvious connection
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- Author
- Jackie Nordström
- Publisher
- Benjamin Publishing Company
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789027205834
- Category
- language
- Subjects
- Linguistics, Language Learning, Literary Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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