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This volume presents a systematic and comprehensive analysis of the Spanish evidential semi-auxiliaries parecer and resultar, the modal constructions with amenazar and prometer, and the modal auxiliaries poder, deber and tener que. These verbs have never been considered together in a global approach that transcends the classical "verbal periphrases" model.

The book proposes a cognitive-functional account of evidentiality and modality in Spanish with special attention to subjectivity and grounding. The theoretical...

The volume describes the frequency, the forms and the functions of different cleft construction types across two language families: the Romance languages (with discussion of Italian, French and Spanish data) and the Germanic languages (with focus on English, German, Swiss German and Danish).

Die interdisziplinare Forschergruppe Nomen et Gens widmet sich seit mehr als einem Jahrzehnt der Erforschung der wechselseitigen Abhangigkeit von Personennamen und Gruppenzugehorigkeiten. Die Beitrage des vorliegenden Bandes sind Ergebnis des dritten internationalen Kolloquiums im Marz 2002, das in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Deutschen Historischen Institut in Paris und dem Paderborner Institut zur Interdisziplinaren Erforschung des Mittelalters und seines Nachwirkens (IEMAN) veranstaltet wurde. Die politische Einigung weiter Teile Mittel- und Westeuropas durch die Franken und die...

The book series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur romanische Philologie, founded by Gustav Grober in 1905, is among the most renowned publications in Romance Studies. It covers the entire field of Romance linguistics, including the national languages as well as the lesser studied Romance languages.

The editors welcome submissions of high-quality monographs and collected volumes on all areas of linguistic research, on medieval literature and on textual criticism. The publication languages of the series are French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian as well as German and...

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science.

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as...

La collection Manuals of Romance Linguistics (MRL) a l'ambition de presenter un panorama d'ensemble de la linguistique romane tenant compte des derniers acquis de la recherche. Elle comprendra une soixantaine de volumes qui pourront etre utilises separement tout en offrant dans leur totalite une bonne approche globale de l'eventail actuel de la linguistique romane. L'accent sera mis en particulier sur les linguae minores auxquelles les deux grands ouvrages de references de la discipline, le Dictionnaire de la linguistique romane (Lexikon der Romanistischen...

The series Manuals of Romance Linguistics (MRL) aims to present a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of Romance linguistics. It will comprise approximately 60 volumes that can either be consulted individually or used as a series of books providing a detailed overall picture of the current state of research in Romance linguistics. A special focus will be placed on the presentation and analysis of the smaller languages, the linguae minores, which the two older reference works of the discipline, Lexikon der Romanistischen Linguistik (1988-2005) and...