A modal account of syntactically non-integrated von wegen in contemporary German

This study aims to account for the German expression von wegen (literally ‘of ways’) when used outside of the sentence structure. Drawing on corpus data for written and spoken German, we show that there are two types of syntactically non-integrated von wegen: (i) illustrating/exemplifying von wegen...

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Published in:	Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft
Main Authors:	Moroni Manuela Caterina, Bidese Ermenegildo
Format:	Article
Language:	German
Published:	De Gruyter 2024-06-01
Subjects:	modality quotative marker evidentiality epistemicity formalism functionalism
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1515/zfs-2024-2006