Modality and negation in the history of Low German

The aim of the present paper is to study and account for the scopal interaction between modal verbs and sentential negation in historical Low German. A number of proposals concerning the scope of negation in clauses with modal verbs for other languages (mainly English) will be evaluated against the...

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Main Author: Breitbarth Anne
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: De Gruyter 2011-10-01
Series:Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/zfsw.2011.007