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Titolo: |
Modality in contemporary English / / edited by Roberta Facchinetti, Manfred Krug, Frank Palmer
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Pubblicazione: | Berlin ; ; New York : , : Mouton de Gruyter, , 2003 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (412 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina: | 425 |
Soggetto topico: | English language - Modality |
Modality (Linguistics) | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Classificazione: | HF 177 |
Persona (resp. second.): | FacchinettiRoberta <1967-> |
KrugManfred G. <1966-> | |
PalmerF. R (Frank Robert) | |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 index |
Titolo autorizzato: | Modality in contemporary English ![]() |
ISBN: | 3-11-089533-1 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910464122503321 |
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