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UNINA9910788707203321 |
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Titolo |
Modality in contemporary English / / edited by Roberta Facchinetti, Manfred Krug, Frank Palmer |
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Berlin ; ; New York : , : Mouton de Gruyter, , 2003 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (412 pages) : illustrations |
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Topics in English linguistics ; ; 44 |
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English language - Modality |
Modality (Linguistics) |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Modality in English: Theoretical, descriptive and typological issues / Palmer, Frank -- The semantics and pragmatics of core modal verbs -- Irrealis, past time reference and modality / Larreya, Paul -- Modal auxiliary constructions, ΤΑΜ and interrogatives / Matthews, Richard -- A pragmatic analysis of the epistemic would construction in English / Ward, Gregory / Birner, Betty J. / Kaplan, Jeffrey P. -- Towards a contextual micro-analysis of the non-equivalence of might and could / Gresset, Stéphane -- The status of emerging modal items -- On two distinct uses of go as a conjoined marker of evaluative modality / Bourdin, Philippe -- Had better and might as well·. On the margins of modality? / Mitchell, Keith -- What you and I want: A functional approach to verb complementation of modal WANT TO / Verplaetse, Heidi -- Between epistemic modality and degree: The case of really / Paradis, Carita -- Stylistic variation and change -- Modality on the move: The English modal auxiliaries 1961-1992 / Leech, Geoffrey -- Changes in the modals and semi-modals of strong obligation and epistemic necessity in recent British English / Smith, Nicholas -- Shall and will in contemporary English: A comparison with past uses / Gotti, Maurizio -- Pragmatic and sociological constraints on the functions of may in contemporary British English / Facchinetti, Roberta -- Sociolinguistic variation and syntactic models -- The role of epistemic modality in women's talk / Coates, Jennifer -- Double modals in the southern United States: Syntactic |
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structure or syntactic structures? / Nagle, Stephen J. -- Modal verbs in Tyneside English: Evidence for (socio)linguistic theory / Trousdale, Graeme -- Subject index |
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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. |
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UNINA9910964825403321 |
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Autore |
Nazaĭkinskiĭ V. E |
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Elliptic theory and noncommutative geometry : nonlocal elliptic operators / / Vladimir E. Nazaikinskii, Anton Yu. Savin, Boris Yu. Sternin |
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Basel, : Birkhäuser, 2008 |
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9786611491246 |
9781281491244 |
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9783764387754 |
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[1st ed. 2008.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (232 p.) |
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Collana |
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Operator theory, advances and applications Advances in partial differential equations ; ; v. 183 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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SavinAnton Yu |
SterninB. I͡U |
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Elliptic operators |
Noncommutative differential geometry |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Analysis of Nonlocal Elliptic Operators -- Nonlocal Functions and |
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Bundles -- Nonlocal Elliptic Operators -- Elliptic Operators over C*-Algebras -- Homotopy Invariants of Nonlocal Elliptic Operators -- Homotopy Classification -- Analytic Invariants -- Bott Periodicity -- Direct Image and Index Formulas in K-Theory -- Chern Character -- Cohomological Index Formula -- Cohomological Formula for the ?-Index -- Index of Nonlocal Operators over C*-Algebras -- Examples -- Index Formula on the Noncommutative Torus -- An Application of Higher Traces -- Index Formula for a Finite Group ?. |
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This comprehensive yet concise book deals with nonlocal elliptic differential operators, whose coefficients involve shifts generated by diffeomorophisms of the manifold on which the operators are defined. The main goal of the study is to relate analytical invariants (in particular, the index) of such elliptic operators to topological invariants of the manifold itself. This problem can be solved by modern methods of noncommutative geometry. This is the first and so far the only book featuring a consistent application of methods of noncommutative geometry to the index problem in the theory of nonlocal elliptic operators. Although the book provides important results, which are in a sense definitive, on the above-mentioned topic, it contains all the necessary preliminary material, such as C*-algebras and their K-theory or cyclic homology. Thus the material is accessible for undergraduate students of mathematics (third year and beyond). It is also undoubtedly of interest for post-graduate students and scientists specializing in geometry, the theory of differential equations, functional analysis, etc. The book can serve as a good introduction to noncommutative geometry, which is one of the most powerful modern tools for studying a wide range of problems in mathematics and theoretical physics. |
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