Modality And Subordinators

Author : Jackie Nordstrom
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027205834

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Modality and Subordinators by Jackie Nordstrom Pdf

This book connects two linguistic phenomena, modality and subordinators, so that both are seen in a new light, each adding to the understanding of the other. It argues that general subordinators (or complementizers) denote propositional modality (otherwise expressed by moods such as the indicative-subjunctive and epistemic-evidential modal markers). The book explores the hypothesis both on a cross-linguistic and on a language-branch specific level (the Germanic languages). One obvious connection between the indicative-subjunctive distinction and subordinators is that the former is typically manifested in subordinate clauses. Furthermore, both the indicative-subjunctive and subordinators determine clause types. More importantly, however, it is shown, through data from various languages, that subordinators themselves often denote the indicative-subjunctive distinction. In the Germanic languages, there is variation in many clause types between both the indicative and the subjunctive and "that" and "if "depending on the speaker s and/or the subject s certainty of the truth of the proposition."

Author : Jackie Nordström
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027288608

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Modality and Subordinators by Jackie Nordström Pdf

This book connects two linguistic phenomena, modality and subordinators, so that both are seen in a new light, each adding to the understanding of the other. It argues that general subordinators (or complementizers) denote propositional modality (otherwise expressed by moods such as the indicative-subjunctive and epistemic-evidential modal markers). The book explores the hypothesis both on a cross-linguistic and on a language-branch specific level (the Germanic languages). One obvious connection between the indicative-subjunctive distinction and subordinators is that the former is typically manifested in subordinate clauses. Furthermore, both the indicative-subjunctive and subordinators determine clause types. More importantly, however, it is shown, through data from various languages, that subordinators themselves often denote the indicative-subjunctive distinction. In the Germanic languages, there is variation in many clause types between both the indicative and the subjunctive and that and if depending on the speaker’s and/or the subject’s certainty of the truth of the proposition.

Author : Elisabeth Leiss,Werner Abraham
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270795

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Modes of Modality by Elisabeth Leiss,Werner Abraham Pdf

The volume aims at a universal definition of modality or “illocutionary/speaker’s perspective force” that is strong enough to capture the entire range of different subtypes and varieties of modalities in different languages. The central idea is that modality is all-pervasive in language. This perspective on modality allows for the integration of covert modality as well as peripheral instances of modality in neglected domains such as the modality of insufficieny, of attitudinality, or neglected domains such as modality and illocutionary force in finite vs. nonfinite and factive vs. non-factive subordinated clauses. In most languages, modality encompasses modal verbs both in their root and epistemic meanings, at least where these languages have the principled distribution between root and epistemic modality in the first place (which is one fundamentally restricted, in its strict qualitative and quantitative sense, to the Germanic languages). In addition, this volume discusses one other intricate and partially highly mysterious class of modality triggers: modal particles as they are sported in the Germanic languages (except for English). It is argued in the contributions and the languages discussed in this volume how modal verbs and adverbials, next to modal particles, are expressed, how they are interlinked with contextual factors such as aspect, definiteness, person, verbal factivity, and assertivity as opposed to other attitudinal types. An essential concept used and argued for is perspectivization (a sub-concept of possible world semantics). Language groups covered in detail and compared are Slavic, Germanic, and South East Asian. The volume will interest researchers in theoretical and applied linguistics, typology, the semantics/pragmatics interface, and language philosophy as it is part of a larger project developing an alternative approach to Universal Grammar that is compatible with functionalist approaches.

Author : Jan Nuyts,Johan van der Auwera
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191646331

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The Oxford Handbook of Modality and Mood by Jan Nuyts,Johan van der Auwera Pdf

This handbook offers an in depth and comprehensive state of the art survey of the linguistic domains of modality and mood. An international team of experts in the field examines the full range of methodological and theoretical approaches to the many facets of the phenomena involved. Parts 1 and 2 of the volume present the basic linguistic facts about the systems of modality and mood in the languages of the world, covering the semantics and the expression of different subtypes of modality and mood respectively. The authors also examine the interaction of modality and mood, mutually and with other semantic categories such as aspect, time, negation, and evidentiality. In Part 3, authors discuss the features of the modality and mood systems in five typologically different language groups, while chapters in Part 4 deal with wider perspectives on modality and mood: diachrony, areality, first language acquisition, and sign language. Finally, Part 5 looks at how modality and mood are handled in different theoretical approaches: formal syntax, functional linguistics, cognitive linguistics and construction grammar, and formal semantics.

Author : Werner Abraham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107021228

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Modality in Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics by Werner Abraham Pdf

An innovative survey that covers the linguistic questions of modality and mood, offering a new model for the phenomenon.

Author : Petar Kehayov
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110521993

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The Fate of Mood and Modality in Language Death by Petar Kehayov Pdf

Research into the “grammar of language death” is often biased toward formal processes (e.g. paradigmatic levelling). In this study the author changes the perspective and shows that the relative susceptibility of linguistic elements to loss, change and innovation in language death circumstances can be dependent on meaning and thus organized along semantic notions rather than along structure.

Author : Camille Denizot,Liana Tronci
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110778380

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Building Modality with Syntax by Camille Denizot,Liana Tronci Pdf

Despite the intensive research carried out in recent years, modality remains an intriguing and challenging issue in linguistics. This book investigates modality from a syntactic viewpoint and with a bottom-up approach. A strong focus of the book is the interaction between the different linguistic tools that build modality (moods, modal verbs, modal adverbs, etc.), taking both the role of syntactic structure and the compositionality of modal meanings into account. The volume comprises corpus-based studies devoted to several syntactic aspects of modality in Ancient Greek, within different theoretical frameworks. The chapters shed new light on different modal categories (e.g. epistemicity, possibility, counterfactuality, evidentiality, subjectivity) and show how these modal meanings arise from the combination of different linguistic devices in specific syntactic contexts (e.g. combinations of modal elements, types of main and dependent clauses, types of illocutionary acts, etc.). By approaching modality from a different perspective and providing an up-to-date discussion of several aspects of modality, the book makes a significant contribution to current debates.

Author : Jackie Nordström
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Germanic languages
ISBN : 9162878050

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Modality and Subordinators in the Germanic Languages and Beyond by Jackie Nordström Pdf

Author : Kasper Boye
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110219036

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Epistemic Meaning by Kasper Boye Pdf

This book is intended to contribute to the clarification of the linguistic research area covered by the terms modal, evidential and epistemic. It sets out to demonstrate that on cross-linguistic grounds a hitherto overlooked epistemic meaning domain must be given due recognition in linguistic theory, on a par with domains such as time and number. The relevant domain is coherent, but at the same time complex in that it consists of two subdomains: one which comprises degree-of-certainty meanings, and one which comprises information-source meanings. The book offers three arguments for giving recognition to such a meaning domain. The first argument concerns the clustering of linguistic expressions with epistemic meaning into morphosyntactically delimited systems of elements. The second argument has to do with the variation pertaining to the coding of epistemic meanings, as highlighted in a semantic map of epistemic expressions. The third argument turns upon the scope properties of epistemic meanings and the morphosyntactic reflections of these properties. Finally, the book proposes a unified cognitive analysis of epistemic meaning in terms of which it attempts to account for the properties of the epistemic meaning domain as well as of individual epistemic meanings.

Author : Caroline Gentens
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110669695

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The Factive-Reported Distinction in English by Caroline Gentens Pdf

This study offers a reconceptualization of the factive presupposition. It presents a cognitive-functional account based on three central features: the event structure of semantic classes of matrix predicates, the sources of modal stances in the complement clause, and the coercive potential of predicate-complement combinations. In this way the study complements the dominant formal pragmatic and formal syntactic theories on factivity.

Author : Fabian Bross
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961102198

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The clausal syntax of German Sign Language by Fabian Bross Pdf

This book presents a hypothesis-based description of the clausal structure of German Sign Language (DGS). The structure of the book is based on the three clausal layers CP, IP/TP, and VoiceP. The main hypothesis is that scopal height is expressed iconically in sign languages: the higher the scope of an operator, the higher the articulator used for its expression. The book was written with two audiences in mind: On the one hand it addresses linguists interested in sign languages and on the other hand it addresses cartographers.

Author : Björn Wiemer,Barbara Sonnenhauser
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110725858

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Clausal Complementation in South Slavic by Björn Wiemer,Barbara Sonnenhauser Pdf

This volume assembles contributions addressing clausal complementation across the entire South Slavic territory. The main focus is on particular aspects of complementation, covering the contemporary standard languages as well as older stages and/or non-standard varieties and the impact of language contact, primarily with non-Slavic languages. Presenting in-depth studies, they thus contribute to the overarching collective aim of arriving at a comprehensive picture of the patterns of clausal complementation on which South Slavic languages profile against a wider typological background, but also diverge internally if we look closer at details in the contemporary stage and in diachronic development. The volume divides into an introduction setting the stage for the single case-studies, an article developing a general template of complementation with a detailed overview of the components relevant for South Slavic, studies addressing particular structural phenomena from different theoretical viewpoints, and articles focusing on variation in space and/or time.

Author : Kasper Boye,Petar Kehayov
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 910 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110416664

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Complementizer Semantics in European Languages by Kasper Boye,Petar Kehayov Pdf

Complementizers may be defined as conjunctions that have the function of identifying clauses as complements. In recent years, it has become increasingly clear that they have additional functions. Some of these functions are semantic in the sense that they represent conventional contributions to the meanings of the complements. The present book puts a focus to these semantic complementizer functions.

Author : Werner Abraham,Elisabeth Leiss
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443842914

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Covert Patterns of Modality by Werner Abraham,Elisabeth Leiss Pdf

This typological overview compares the degree to which different languages have means to give expression to modality (possibility, necessity) without lexical and direct inflectional means. The criterial patterns derive from a variety of languages such as German, English, Chinese, French, Scandinavian, Italian, Romanian, Russian, Polish, and Gothic as well as Old High German. They encompass mainly the auxiliaries HAVE and BE, together with either an infinitival embedding of a full verb linked by the infinitival preposition TO, or other aspectual means. It is demonstrated that what appears as typical covert modal expressions in the Germanic languages, and the Indo-European ones in a wider sense, cannot be seen as a recurrent pattern in non-Indo-European languages. Yet, there are recurrent and plausible forms that allow for generalizations.

Author : N Kono,Narn-rueih Shieh
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1997-10-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814545525

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Trends In Probability And Related Analysis - Proceedings Of Sap'96 by N Kono,Narn-rueih Shieh Pdf

This proceedings volume reflects the current interest — especially of researchers in the Asia-Pacific region — in probability theory and related theory of analysis and statistics. It contains the papers of the two survey speakers, and of some other speakers and researchers. It brings out the theme of SAP, an international meeting on some aspects of probability, analysis and their interplay.