'Should a conditional marker arise' … The diachronic development of conditional 'sollte' in German
Like other Germanic languages, German has a modal verb that, when used in the protasis of a conditional, does not have one of the modal meanings it has in other contexts, but only seems to underline the conditional meaning. The current paper looks at the diachronic development of conditional 's...
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Open Library of Humanities
2019-02-01
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| Series: | Glossa |
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| Online Access: | https://www.glossa-journal.org/articles/599 |