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Contents |
6 |
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List of contributors |
8 |
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Abbreviations used in glossing |
13 |
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1. Introduction |
16 |
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A. Modals in Indo-European languages (Western branch) |
24 |
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2. Modals in the Germanic languages |
26 |
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3. Modals in Irish |
86 |
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4. Modals in the Romance languages |
122 |
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5. Modals in Greek |
154 |
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B. Modals in Indo-European languages (Eastern branch) |
180 |
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6. Modals in the Slavonic languages |
182 |
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7. Modals in Baltic |
214 |
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8. Modals in Albanian |
244 |
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9. Modality in Romani |
282 |
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C. Modals in Non-Indo-European languages |
338 |
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10. The grammaticalisation of modal auxiliaries in Maltese and Arabic vernaculars of the Mediterranean area |
340 |
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11. Modal verbs in Balto-Finnic |
378 |
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12. Modals in Hungarian |
418 |
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13. Mood and modality in Berber |
446 |
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14. Modality in Basque |
472 |
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15. Modals in Turkic |
502 |
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16. Concluding chapter: modal constructions in the languages of Europe |
526 |
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Subject index |
576 |
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Languages and language varieties index |
584 |
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