Semantics and syntax in Old English mood selection

A principled model of mood selection in Old English (OE) has long proved elusive. We analyse the distribution of the indicative and subjunctive in the OE Bede in light of the Latin original, the syntactic construction, and a semantic model of modality which classifies clauses according to whether th...

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Hauptverfasser: Jones, H, Macleod, M
Format: Journal article
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Wiley 2020