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Revisiting Modality

Vítor Míguez
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Author : Vítor Míguez
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 254 pages
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Release : 2024-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027246981

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This book presents the first in-depth investigation of modality in Galician linguistics, offering a theoretical discussion of modal categories and a fine-grained description of epistemic adverbs. The first half of the monograph deconstructs the most relevant approaches to modal categories and shows how the traditional concept of modality is a problematic notion, how it relates to other concepts such as evidentiality and mitigation, and how it ought to be conceived of in order to become a more useful instrument for linguistic analysis. A new way of understanding modality is explored and illustrated through Galician examples. The second half of the book zooms in on six epistemic adverbs, which are exhaustively studied from both a formal and a functional perspective. Combining a quantitative and a qualitative perspective, the book shows that adverbs make up a rich semantic scale and establishes several factors that condition their occurrence in discourse, challenging previous conceptions of this grammatical domain.

Mood, Aspect, Modality Revisited

Joanna Blaszczak,Anastasia Giannakidou,Dorota Klimek-Jankowska,Krzysztof Migdalski
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Author : Joanna Blaszczak,Anastasia Giannakidou,Dorota Klimek-Jankowska,Krzysztof Migdalski
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780226363660

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Mood, Aspect, Modality Revisited by Joanna Blaszczak,Anastasia Giannakidou,Dorota Klimek-Jankowska,Krzysztof Migdalski Pdf

Over the past several decades, linguistic theorizing of tense, aspect, and mood (TAM), along with a strongly growing body of crosslinguistic studies, has revealed complexity in the data that challenges traditional distinctions and treatments of these categories. Mood, Aspect, Modality Revisited argues that it’s time to revisit our conventional assumptions and reconsider our foundational questions: What exactly is a linguistic category? What kinds of categories do labels such as “subjunctive,” “imperative,” “future,” and “modality” truly refer to? In short, how categorical are categories? Current literature assumes a straightforward link between grammatical category and semantic function, and descriptions of well-studied languages have cultivated a sense of predictability in patterns over time. As the editors and contributors of Mood, Aspect, Modality Revisited prove, however, this predictability and stability vanish in the study of lesser-known patterns and languages. The ten provocative essays gathered here present fascinating cutting-edge research demonstrating that the traditional grammatical distinctions are ultimately fluid—and perhaps even illusory. Developing groundbreaking and highly original theories, the contributors in this volume seek to unravel more general, fundamental principles of TAM that can help us better understand the nature of linguistic representations.

Revisiting Sentence Adverbials and Relevance

Irina T. Pandarova
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Author : Irina T. Pandarova
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027252838

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Revisiting Sentence Adverbials and Relevance by Irina T. Pandarova Pdf

This book offers a fresh take on several long-standing issues relating to the (non-)truth-conditional interpretation of epistemic, evidential, hearsay and attitudinal sentence adverbials. Drawing on a wealth of data from English and German, it shows for the first time that all four adverbial classes can have both truth-conditional and non-truth-conditional (parenthetical) readings. A novel account is presented according to which (non-)truth-conditional readings may arise at either the syntactic or the pragmatic level. Couched in relevance theory, the book also re-examines the explicature and illocutionary status of the adverbial qualification and the qualified proposition, and refines the notions of pointhood and at-issueness to provide an original information-structural analysis applicable to not just sentence adverbials but a range of other propositional qualifiers. Finally, the investigation identifies five factors affecting (non-)truth-conditional interpretation: linear position, prosody, the semantics of the adverbial, its information-structural properties and the wider context. The book will be of interest to those interested in relevance theory, the semantics/pragmatics interface, the syntax/pragmatics interface and information structure, as well as for syntacticians, semanticists and pragmatists interested in sentence adverbials, other propositional qualifiers and parentheticality, syntactic and interpretational.

Evidentiality Revisited

Juana I. Marín Arrese,Gerda Haßler,Marta Carretero
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Author : Juana I. Marín Arrese,Gerda Haßler,Marta Carretero
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027266149

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Evidentiality Revisited by Juana I. Marín Arrese,Gerda Haßler,Marta Carretero Pdf

Evidentiality Revisited focuses on semantic-pragmatic based frameworks for the study of evidentials and evidential strategies in European languages (Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish). The book also presents discourse-pragmatic studies, with special emphasis on the use of evidential and epistemic expressions as resources for stancetaking in discourse. The volume addresses issues such as the relationship between the conceptual domains of evidentiality and epistemic modality, the role of evidential and epistemic resources in modelling stancetaking, the expression of speaker commitment to the validity status of the information, and the discourse-pragmatic variation of evidentiality and epistemic modality in discourse domains and genres. The volume offers a collection of contributions in which cross-linguistic studies and corpus-based studies contribute to provide further insights into a usage-based account of linguistic reality.

Auxiliary Selection Revisited

Rolf Kailuweit,Malte Rosemeyer
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Author : Rolf Kailuweit,Malte Rosemeyer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110348866

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Auxiliary Selection Revisited by Rolf Kailuweit,Malte Rosemeyer Pdf

A central debate about the description of auxiliary selection concerns the regularity of auxiliary selection from a typological perspective. Thus, studies of auxiliary selection have both stressed the fact that certain recurrent parameters are highly relevant to the description of auxiliary selection, whereas other studies demonstrate significant differences in auxiliary selection systems. By integrating the synchronic and diachronic levels of linguistic description, the papers in the present volume work towards a framework that explains these contradictory findings. They discuss the role of semantic and syntactic constraints in gradient auxiliary selection, address the question of paradigmaticity of the have-be alternation, and shed light on the mechanisms of the gradual historical change from be- to have-selection. The volume thus puts forth a row of innovative theoretical and empirical findings from a wide range of typologically diverse European languages that substantially broaden our knowledge about the mechanisms of auxiliary selection systems.

Modality in Argumentation

Andrea Rocci
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Author : Andrea Rocci
Publisher : Springer
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789402410631

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Modality in Argumentation by Andrea Rocci Pdf

This book addresses two related questions that have first arisen in Toulmin’s seminal book on the uses of argument. The first question is the one of the relationship between the semantic analysis of modality and the structure of arguments. The second question is the one of the distinctive place, or role, of modality in the fundamental structure of arguments. These two questions concern how modality, as a semantic category, relates to the fundamental structure of arguments. The book addresses modality and argumentation also according to another perspective by looking at how different linguistic modal expressions may be taken as argumentative indicators. It explores the role of modal expressions as argumentative indicators by using the Italian modal system as a case study. At the same time, it uses predictions/forecasts in the business-financial daily press to investigate the relation between modality and the context of argumentation.

ELT Revisited

Marcela Malá,Zuzana Šaffková
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Author : Marcela Malá,Zuzana Šaffková
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781443898119

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ELT Revisited by Marcela Malá,Zuzana Šaffková Pdf

This volume brings together selected papers presented during the 9th International Conference of the Association of Czech Teachers of English, titled “Teaching for Tomorrow” and hosted by the English Department of the Faculty of Science, Humanities and Education at the Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic. The conference brought together English Language Teaching (ELT) professionals from primary, secondary and tertiary education to discuss a variety of English as a Foreign Language (EFL)-related topics, ranging from reports on language research to viewpoints and insights on classroom practice. The contributions are grouped into three sections: a) Focus on Selected Language Topics, b) Increasing Learner Autonomy and c) Innovative Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) ideas. Papers were carefully chosen in order to appeal to a broad audience. Consequently, there are articles which have a mainly theoretical bent and those which have a more practical leaning. Although the conference was hosted in the Czech Republic and the majority of participants were from this country, the book is relevant to any context where English is taught as a foreign or second language. Therefore, teachers, advanced students of English, language researchers, and, indeed, anyone engaged in the EFL profession will find this collection both educational and thought-provoking.

Narrative Revisited

Christian R. Hoffmann
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Author : Christian R. Hoffmann
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027256034

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Narrative Revisited by Christian R. Hoffmann Pdf

Revised papers originally presented at the "International Conference on Narrative Revisited: Telling a Story in the Age of New Media," held in July 2007, and sponsored by the Department of English Linguistics at the University of Augsburg, in honor of WolframBublitz .

Aboriginal Canada Revisited

Kerstin Knopf
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Author : Kerstin Knopf
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780776618227

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Aboriginal Canada Revisited by Kerstin Knopf Pdf

Exploring a variety of topics—including health, politics, education, art, literature, media, and film—Aboriginal Canada Revisited draws a portrait of the current political and cultural position of Canada’s Aboriginal peoples. While lauding improvements made in the past decades, the contributors draw attention to the systemic problems that continue to marginalize Aboriginal people within Canadian society. From the Introduction: “[This collection helps] to highlight areas where the colonial legacy still takes its toll, to acknowledge the manifold ways of Aboriginal cultural expression, and to demonstrate where Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people are starting to find common ground.” Contributors include Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal scholars from Europe and Canada, including Marlene Atleo, University of Manitoba; Mansell Griffin, Nisga’a Village of Gitwinksihlkw, British Columbia; Robert Harding, University College of the Fraser Valley; Tricia Logan, University of Manitoba; Steffi Retzlaff, McMaster University; Siobhán Smith, University of British Columbia; Barbara Walberg, Confederation College.

The Signs of Language Revisited

Karen Emmorey,Harlan L. Lane
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Author : Karen Emmorey,Harlan L. Lane
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780805832464

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The Signs of Language Revisited by Karen Emmorey,Harlan L. Lane Pdf

The burgeoning of research on signed language during the last two decades has had a major influence on several disciplines concerned with mind and language, including linguistics, neuroscience, cognitive psychology, child language acquisition, sociolinguistics, bilingualism, and deaf education. The genealogy of this research can be traced to a remarkable degree to a single pair of scholars, Ursula Bellugi and Edward Klima, who have conducted their research on signed language and educated scores of scholars in the field since the early 1970s. The Signs of Language Revisited has three major objectives: * presenting the latest findings and theories of leading scientists in numerous specialties from language acquisition in children to literacy and deaf people; * taking stock of the distance scholarship has come in a given field, where we are now, and where we should be headed; and * acknowledging and articulating the intellectual debt of the authors to Bellugi and Klima--in some cases through personal reminiscences. Thus, this book is also a document in the sociology and history of science.

The Significance Test Controversy Revisited

Bruno Lecoutre,Jacques Poitevineau
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Author : Bruno Lecoutre,Jacques Poitevineau
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-13
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783662657058

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The Significance Test Controversy Revisited by Bruno Lecoutre,Jacques Poitevineau Pdf

This book explains the misuses and abuses of Null Hypothesis Significance Tests, which are reconsidered in light of Jeffreys’ Bayesian concept of the role of statistical inference, in experimental investigations. Minimizing the technical aspects, the studies focuses mainly on methodological contributions. The first part of the book gives an overview of the major approaches to statistical testing and an enlightening discussion of the philosophies of Fisher, Neyman-Pearson and Jeffrey. The conceptual and methodological implications of current practices of reporting effect sizes and confidence intervals are also examined and challenged. This sheds new light on the "significance testing controversy" and provides an appropriate Bayesian framework for a comprehensive approach to the analysis and interpretation of experimental data. The second part of the book provides concrete Bayesian routine procedures that bypass common misuses of significance testing and are readily applicable in a wide range of real applications. This approach addresses the need for objective reporting of experimental data, that is acceptable to the scientific community. This is emphasized by the name fiducial (from the Latin fiducia = confidence). The fiducial Bayesian procedures provide the reader with a real opportunity to think sensibly about problems of statistical inference. This book prepares students and researchers to critically read statistical analyses reported in the literature and equips them with an appropriate alternative to the use of significance testing.

Medieval Supposition Theory Revisited

Anonim
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Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004260238

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Medieval Supposition Theory Revisited by Anonim Pdf

In 1962–1967 Professor L.M. de Rijk published his Logica Modernorum – A Contribution to the History of Early Terminist Logic. The first part (1962) has the title: On the Twelfth Century Theories of Fallacy. The second part (two volumes, 1967) has as title: The Origin and the Early Development of the Theory of Supposition. De Rijk’s Logica Modernorum provides the basis for the modern study of medieval theories of supposition. Now, nearly 50 years later, scholars have made great progress in the study of the properties of terms. De Rijk’s study was primarily about the early development of terminist logic, i.e. during the 12th and 13th centuries. Scholars have also investigated later developments well into the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Not only logical texts, but also texts on grammar have been published. Many of the scholars who have contributed to this development, present papers in this volume. Contributors are Fabrizio Amerini, Jenny Ashworth, Allan Bäck, Bert Bos, Julie Brumberg-Chaumont, Laurent Cesalli, Lambert Marie de Rijk, Sten Ebbesen, Alessandro Conti, Catarina Dutilh-Novaes, Onno Kneepkens, Costantino Marmo, Dafne Mure, Claude Panaccio, Ernesto Perini Santos, Joel Lonfat, Angel d’Ors, Göran Sundholm and Luisa Valente.

Mood, Aspect, Modality Revisited

Joanna Blaszczak,Anastasia Giannakidou,Dorota Klimek-Jankowska,Krzysztof Migdalski
Mood Aspect Modality Revisited Book PDF

Author : Joanna Blaszczak,Anastasia Giannakidou,Dorota Klimek-Jankowska,Krzysztof Migdalski
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780226363523

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Mood, Aspect, Modality Revisited by Joanna Blaszczak,Anastasia Giannakidou,Dorota Klimek-Jankowska,Krzysztof Migdalski Pdf

What is a linguistic category and what kinds of categories do the labels subjunctive, imperative, future, aspect, and modality refer to? The current literature assumes a straightforward mapping between grammatical category and semantic function, and descriptions of well-studied languages cultivate a sense of predictability in patterns. However, as the editors and contributors of "Mood, Aspect, Modality Revisited" show, this predictability and stability vanish once lesser known patterns and languages are studied. While it is feasible to retain certain distinctions among tense, aspect, and mood (TAM) in analysis of specific issues in specific languages, ongoing formal and experimental research seems to indicate that these traditional grammatical distinctions may ultimately be illusionary. "Mood, Aspect, Modality Revisited" seeks more general or fundamental grammatical structures that can encompass the breadth of related concepts traditionally placed in the TAM categories."

Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction

Gareth J.F. Jones,Séamus Lawless,Julio Gonzalo,Liadh Kelly,Lorraine Goeuriot,Thomas Mandl,Linda Cappellato,Nicola Ferro
Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality Multimodality and Interaction Book PDF

Author : Gareth J.F. Jones,Séamus Lawless,Julio Gonzalo,Liadh Kelly,Lorraine Goeuriot,Thomas Mandl,Linda Cappellato,Nicola Ferro
Publisher : Springer
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319658131

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Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction by Gareth J.F. Jones,Séamus Lawless,Julio Gonzalo,Liadh Kelly,Lorraine Goeuriot,Thomas Mandl,Linda Cappellato,Nicola Ferro Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference of the CLEF Initiative, CLEF 2017, held in Dublin, Ireland, in September 2017. The 7 full papers and 9 short papers presented together with 6 best of the labs papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. In addition, this volume contains the results of 10 benchmarking labs reporting their year long activities in overview talks and lab sessions. The papers address all aspects of information access in any modality and language and cover a broad range of topics in the field of multilingual and multimodal information access evaluation.

Psychology in India Revisited - Developments in the Discipline

Janak Pandey
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Author : Janak Pandey
Publisher : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2000-06-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015056225611

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Psychology in India Revisited - Developments in the Discipline by Janak Pandey Pdf

Psychology in India Revisited - Developments in the Discipline is based on the fourth national survey of research in psychology and presents a current, analytical and critical review of basic and applied psychology.