Download or read book How Epistemic Modifiers Emerge written by Jakob Maché and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book delivers the first comprehensive study on German modal verbs which summarises and critically reflects the discussion of the last 500 years, checks these findings against large corpus data and is accessible to the English reader. It is shown that non-epistemic modal verbs modify events, whereas their epistemic counterparts modify the proposition, and how the latter developed from the former.