Modality in contemporary English / / edited by Roberta Facchinetti, Manfred Krug, Frank Palmer

• 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
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Topics in English linguistics ; ; 44.