The Development of Modal Verbs as the Means of Expressing of Internal Modality in German (the data of Old-, Middle- and Early-New-High German languages taken as an example).

Babakina Tatyana Nikolaevna

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In this paper the process of development of the class of modal verbs in German on the background of the reconstruction of all the mood system and its reorientation from the internal to the external objective modality is considered. The development of the semantics of modal verbs as means of expressing of internal modality is analysed the data of Old-, Middle- and Early-New-High German languages taken as an example.

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Issue: 4, 2006

Series of issue: Humanities (Philology: Indo-European and Siberian languages)

Rubric: Indo-European Languages

Pages: 38 — 45

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