04128nam 2200685 a 450 991045555220332120200520144314.01-282-29651-597866122965123-11-021333-810.1515/9783110213331(CKB)1000000000789607(EBL)453984(OCoLC)500808549(SSID)ssj0000340477(PQKBManifestationID)11247537(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000340477(PQKBWorkID)10388292(PQKB)10842616(MiAaPQ)EBC453984(DE-B1597)35833(OCoLC)719448743(DE-B1597)9783110213331(Au-PeEL)EBL453984(CaPaEBR)ebr10329876(CaONFJC)MIL229651(EXLCZ)99100000000078960720090506d2009 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrModality in English[electronic resource] theory and description /edited by Raphael Salkie, Pierre Busuttil, Johan van der AuweraBerlin ;New York Mouton de Gruyterc20091 online resource (390 p.)Topics in English linguistics,1434-3452 ;58Description based upon print version of record.3-11-019634-4 Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Towards a typology of modality in language -- 'Not-yet-factual at time t': a neglected modal concept -- Semantic ascent, deixis, intersubjectivity and modality -- Degrees of modality -- Another look at modals and subjectivity -- For a topological representation of the modal system of English -- Epistemic might in the interrogative -- MAY in concessive contexts -- When may means must: deontic modality in English statute construction -- Legal English and the 'modal revolution' -- Posteriority in expressions with must and have to: a case of interplay between syntax, semantics and pragmatics -- Using the adjectives surprised/surprising to express epistemic modality -- Commitment and subjectivity in the discourse of a judicial inquiry -- Hearsay adverbs and modality -- When Yes means No, and other hidden modalities -- Modality and the history of English adhortatives -- On the "great modal shift" sustained by come to VP -- BackmatterThis volume presents two kinds of studies on English modality. On the one hand, there are strongly empirical, corpus-based studies of individual uses of English modal auxiliaries and modal constructions, such as may in interrogatives, might in concessive clauses, shall and may vs must in legal English, the use of surprised if and surprising if constructions, the use and history of adhortative constructions, or the modal-aspectual use of come to in I came to realize that X. The book also contains work that presents new views on some of the classical issues, like the relations between modality and time, modality and commitment, modals and (inter)subjectivity. A special place is given to work that approaches the English modals from the perspective of the 'Theory of Enunciative Operations' developed by the French linguist Antoine Culioli and his colleagues. Thus the book provides new perspectives and answers on basic questions about modality, in general, and its expression in English, in particular. Topics in English linguistics ;58.English languageModalityModality (Linguistics)Electronic books.English languageModality.Modality (Linguistics)425/.6HD 135rvkSalkie Raphael917566Busuttil Pierre1026577Auwera Johan van der310993MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455552203321Modality in English2441546UNINA