The Semantic Field of Modal Certainty : a Corpus-Based Study of English Adverbs.

The Semantic Field of Modal Certainty : a Corpus-Based Study of English Adverbs.

In spite of the vast literature on modality in English, very little research has been done on modal adverbs as a group. While there are studies of individual adverbs, the semantic and pragmatic relations between them have been left largely unexplored. This book takes a close look at the whole field...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Simon-Vandenbergen, Anne-Marie
Other Authors: Aijmer, Karin
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, 2008.
Series:Topics in English Linguistics, v. 56.
Subjects:
English language > Adverb.
English language > Modality.
English language > Semantics.
Field theory (Linguistics)
English language > Adverb
English language > Modality
English language > Semantics
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter; Table of contents; Chapter 1. Aims, methodology and data; Chapter 2. Establishing meaning relations: Problems and solutions; Chapter 3. The linguistic categories of modality and evidentiality; Chapter 4. An integrated model for describing adverbs of certainty; Chapter 5. Classification of adverbs of certainty; Chapter 6. The epistemic certainty adverbs certainly, definitely, indeed: Syntagmatic and paradigmatic dimensions; Chapter 7. The epistemic certainty adverbs no doubt, surely: Syntagmatic and paradigmatic dimensions.
  • Chapter 8. Evidential, expectation and speech act adverbs: Syntagmatic and paradigmatic dimensionsChapter 9. Adverbs of certainty and the wider context: Text types and genres; Chapter 10. Semantic-pragmatic relations: Networks and maps; Chapter 11. Semantic-pragmatic relations: Parameters and features; Chapter 12. Conclusions; Backmatter.

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