Subjectification and the development of epistemic meaning: The case of promise and threaten

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. I think — an English modal particle 1
5. Dimensions of epistemicity in English, German and Norwegian conditionals 49
6. The modal particle schon: Its syntax, semantics, and pragmatics 75
7. Negation and modality in the Germanic languages 133
8. Expressive sentence types — a contradiction in terms. The case of exclamation 151
9. Subjectification and the development of epistemic meaning: The case of promise and threaten 185
10. On the use of brauchen versus müssen 211
11. Some central pragmatic functions of the Norwegian particles altså and nemlig 233
12. On narrative declarative VI sentences in German 293