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Modality in Grammar and Discourse by Joan L. Bybee,Suzanne Fleischman Pdf
This volume brings together a collection of 18 papers that look into the expression of modality in the grammars of natural languages, with an emphasis on its manifestations in naturally occurring discourse. Though the individual contributions reflect a diversity of languages, of synchronic and diachronic foci, and of theoretical orientations all within the broad domain of functional linguistics they nonetheless converge around a number of key issues: the relationship between 'mood' and 'modality'; the delineation of modal categories and their nomenclature; the grounding of modality in interactive discourse; the elusive category 'irrealis'; and the relationship of modal notions and categories to other categories of grammar.
Raphael Salkie,Pierre Busuttil,Johan van der Auwera
Author : Raphael Salkie,Pierre Busuttil,Johan van der Auwera Publisher : Walter de Gruyter Page : 391 pages File Size : 48,8 Mb Release : 2009 Category : Foreign Language Study ISBN : 9783110196344
Modality in English by Raphael Salkie,Pierre Busuttil,Johan van der Auwera Pdf
Main description: This volume presents strongly empirical, corpus-based studies of a range of English modal auxiliaries and modal constructions in specific uses. It also approaches some of the classic issues in the field of modality from new perspectives, notably that of the 'Theory of Enunciative Operations' developed by the French linguist Antoine Culioli and his colleagues.
Time and Modality by Jacqueline Guéron,Jacqueline Lecarme Pdf
Here is a unique work of reference. Not only does it unite studies which explore the syntax and semantics of tense or modality, but it is the first book of its kind to embrace the interaction of tense and modality within a coherent generative model.
Author : Frank Robert Palmer Publisher : Longman Publishing Group Page : 216 pages File Size : 44,8 Mb Release : 1979 Category : English language ISBN : UCSC:32106001574125
Author : Roberta Facchinetti,Frank Palmer,Manfred Krug Publisher : Walter de Gruyter Page : 412 pages File Size : 42,6 Mb Release : 2012-02-13 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines ISBN : 9783110895339
Modality in Contemporary English by Roberta Facchinetti,Frank Palmer,Manfred Krug Pdf
This book offers original theoretical accounts and a wealth of descriptive information concerning modality in present-day English. At the same time, it provides fresh impetus to more general linguistic issues such as grammaticalization, colloquialization, or the interplay between sociolinguistic and syntactic constraints. The articles fall into four sections: (a) the semantics and pragmatics of core modal verbs; (b) the status of emerging modal items; (c) stylistic variation and change; (d) sociolinguistic variation and syntactic models. The book is of considerable value to students and teachers of English and Linguistics at undergraduate and graduate level worldwide.
Author : Elisabeth Leiss,Werner Abraham Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company Page : 511 pages File Size : 53,9 Mb Release : 2014-01-15 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines ISBN : 9789027270795
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.
Juana I. Marín-Arrese,Marta Carretero,Jorge Arús Hita,Johan van der Auwera
Author : Juana I. Marín-Arrese,Marta Carretero,Jorge Arús Hita,Johan van der Auwera Publisher : Walter de Gruyter Page : 458 pages File Size : 42,8 Mb Release : 2013-12-12 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines ISBN : 9783110286328
English Modality by Juana I. Marín-Arrese,Marta Carretero,Jorge Arús Hita,Johan van der Auwera Pdf
The book presents new issues and areas of work in modality and evidentiality in English(es), and in relation to other European languages (French, Galician, Lithuanian, Spanish). Given the complexity of the relations among modal and evidential expressions, their constant diachronic evolution, and the variation found in different English-speaking areas, and in different genres and discourse domains, the volume addresses the following issues: the conceptual nature of modality, the relationship between the domains of modality and evidentiality, the evolution and current status of the modal auxiliaries and other modal expressions, the relationship with neighbouring grammatical categories (tense, aspect, mood), and the variation in different discourse domains and genres, in modelling stance and discourse identities.
Corpus Linguistics and Sociolinguistics by Beke Hansen Pdf
In Corpus Linguistics and Sociolinguistics, Beke Hansen provides an in-depth analysis of variation and change in the expression of modality in second-language varieties of English by adopting an integrated sociolinguistic and corpus-based approach.
Author : Werner Abraham Publisher : Cambridge University Press Page : 455 pages File Size : 42,5 Mb Release : 2020-09-17 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines ISBN : 9781107021228
Modality-aspect Interfaces by Werner Abraham,Elisabeth Leiss Pdf
The main topics pursued in this volume are based on empirical insights derived from Germanic: logical and typological dispositions about aspect-modality links. These are probed in a variety of non-related languages. The logically establishable links are the following: Modal verbs are aspect sensitive in the selection of their infinitival complements embedded infinitival perfectivity implies root modal reading, whereas embedded infinitival imperfectivity triggers epistemic readings. However, in marked contexts such as negated ones, the aspectual affinities of modal verbs are neutralized or even subject to markedness inversion. All of this suggests that languages that do not, or only partially, bestow upon full modal verb paradigms seek to express modal variations in terms of their aspect oppositions. This typological tenet is investigated in a variety of languages from Indo-European (German, Slavic, Armenian), African, Asian, Amerindian, and Creoles. Seeming deviations and idiosyncrasies in the interaction between aspect and modality turn out to be highly rule-based.
Thinking Modally by Elena Domínguez,CARMEN MAÍZ,Juan Rafael Zamorano-Mansilla Pdf
This volume brings together a selection of the papers presented at the 4th International Conference on Modality in English, held in Madrid on 9–11 September 2010. The book is divided into two parts, with the first encompassing contributions focusing on the notions of modality, evidentiality and temporality, and the second those that explore modality and its connection with stance and evaluation in specific genres and discourse domains.
Author : Jan Nuyts,Johan van der Auwera Publisher : Oxford University Press Page : 640 pages File Size : 52,8 Mb Release : 2016-09-08 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines ISBN : 9780191646348
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 examine the full range of methodological and theoretical approaches to the many facets of the phenomena involved. Following an opening section that provides an introduction and historical background to the topic, the volume is divided into five parts. Parts 1 and 2 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.
Modality and Diachronic Construction Grammar by Martin Hilpert,Bert Cappelle,Ilse Depraetere Pdf
This volume explores how Diachronic Construction Grammar can shed new light on changes in a central and well-researched domain of grammar, namely modality. Its main goal is to show how constructional analyses can help us address some of the long-standing questions that have informed discussions of modal expressions and their development, and to illustrate the processes that are involved in these developments on the basis of data from languages such as English, Finnish, French, Galician, German, and Japanese. The studies in this volume are organized around three interrelated topics. The first of these concerns the organization of modal constructions in a network. A second focus area of the studies in this volume concerns the developmental pathways that modal constructions follow diachronically. The third topic that ties the contributions of this volume together is the contrast between constructionalization and constructional change.
Author : Jan Nuyts,Johan van der Auwera Publisher : Oxford University Press Page : 689 pages File Size : 53,7 Mb Release : 2016 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines ISBN : 9780199591435
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 examine the full range of methodological and theoretical approaches to the many facets of the phenomena involved. Following an opening section that provides an introduction and historical background to the topic, the volume is divided into five parts. Parts 1 and 2 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.