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The expression of modality /

This book covers the essentials of modality and offers both foundational ideas and cutting edge advances. The book consists of what are essentially tutorials on modality and modal notions, covering definitions of modality, morphosyntactic form, conceptual and logical semantics, historical developmen...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Frawley, William, 1953-, Eschenroeder, Erin, Mills, Sarah, 1984-, Nguyen, Thao
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©2006.
Colección:Expression of cognitive categories ; 1.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Modality: overview and linguistic issues / Jan Nuyts
  • Formal approaches to modality / Cleo Condoravdi
  • Typological approaches to modality / Ferdinand de Haan
  • Historical aspects of modality / Elizabeth Traugott
  • Acquisition of modality / Soonja Choi
  • Modality in zapotec / Pamela Munro
  • Modality in sign language / Sherman Wilcox & Barbara Shaffer
  • New directions / William Frawley.