Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Diewald, Gabriele
• Smirnova, Elena

Titel

Evidentiality in German: Linguistic Realization and Regularities in Grammaticalization

Auflage

1. Aufl.

Ort / Verlag

Germany: De Gruyter

Erscheinungsjahr

2010

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The book is a comprehensive study of the evidential system in German. It focuses on the constructions scheinen ´seem´, drohen ´threaten´, versprechen ´promise´ + 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.