03813nam 2200649 450 991046412250332120200520144314.03-11-089533-110.1515/9783110895339(CKB)3390000000034200(SSID)ssj0000849399(PQKBManifestationID)11459342(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000849399(PQKBWorkID)10810039(PQKB)11161744(MiAaPQ)EBC3049939(DE-B1597)56186(OCoLC)1013955535(OCoLC)840445156(DE-B1597)9783110895339(Au-PeEL)EBL3049939(CaPaEBR)ebr11035991(CaONFJC)MIL806720(OCoLC)607057561(EXLCZ)99339000000003420020030423d2003 uy| 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrModality in contemporary English /edited by Roberta Facchinetti, Manfred Krug, Frank PalmerBerlin ;New York :Mouton de Gruyter,2003.1 online resource (412 pages) illustrationsTopics in English linguistics ;44Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph3-11-017686-6 Includes bibliographical references. 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 structure or syntactic structures? / Nagle, Stephen J. -- Modal verbs in Tyneside English: Evidence for (socio)linguistic theory / Trousdale, Graeme -- Subject indexTopics in English linguistics ;44.English languageModalityModality (Linguistics)Electronic books.English languageModality.Modality (Linguistics)425HF 177rvkFacchinetti Roberta1967-Krug Manfred G.1966-Palmer F. R(Frank Robert),MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910464122503321Modality in contemporary English1104302UNINA