Modality in contemporary English

Modality in contemporary English / edited by Roberta Facchinetti, Manfred Krug, Frank Palmer.

The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features volumes th...

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Other Authors: Facchinetti, Roberta, 1967-, Krug, Manfred G., 1966-, Palmer, F. R. (Frank Robert)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2003.
Series:Topics in English linguistics ; 44.
Subjects:
English language > Modality.
Modality (Linguistics)
English language > Modality
Modaliteit.
Engels.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Modality in English: Theoretical, descriptive and typological issues
  • The semantics and pragmatics of core modal verbs
  • Irrealis, past time reference and modality
  • Modal auxiliary constructions, XAO and interrogatives
  • A pragmatic analysis of the epistemic would construction in English
  • Towards a contextual micro-analysis of the nonequivalence of might and could
  • The status of emerging modal items
  • On two distinct uses of go as a conjoined marker of evaluative modality
  • Had better and might as well·. On the margins of modality?
  • What you and I want: A functional approach to verb complementation of modal WANT TO
  • Between epistemic modality and degree: The case of really
  • Modality on the move: The English modal auxiliaries 1961-1992
  • Changes in the modals and semi-modals of strong obligation and epistemic necessity in recent British English
  • Shall and will in contemporary English: A comparison with past uses
  • Pragmatic and sociological constraints on the functions of may in contemporary British English
  • Sociolinguistic variation and syntactic models
  • The role of epistemic modality in women's talk.
  • Double modals in the southern United States: Syntactic structure or syntactic structures?
  • Modal verbs in Tyneside English: Evidence for (socio)linguistic theory
  • Subject index.

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