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The Semantic Field of Modal Certainty : a Corpus-Based Study of English Adverbs.
In spite of the vast literature on modality in English, very little research has been done on modal adverbs as a group. While there are studies of individual adverbs, the semantic and pragmatic relations between them have been left largely unexplored. This book takes a close look at the whole field...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
Walter de Gruyter,
2008.
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| Colección: | Topics in English Linguistics, v. 56.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter; Table of contents; Chapter 1. Aims, methodology and data; Chapter 2. Establishing meaning relations: Problems and solutions; Chapter 3. The linguistic categories of modality and evidentiality; Chapter 4. An integrated model for describing adverbs of certainty; Chapter 5. Classification of adverbs of certainty; Chapter 6. The epistemic certainty adverbs certainly, definitely, indeed: Syntagmatic and paradigmatic dimensions; Chapter 7. The epistemic certainty adverbs no doubt, surely: Syntagmatic and paradigmatic dimensions.
- Chapter 8. Evidential, expectation and speech act adverbs: Syntagmatic and paradigmatic dimensionsChapter 9. Adverbs of certainty and the wider context: Text types and genres; Chapter 10. Semantic-pragmatic relations: Networks and maps; Chapter 11. Semantic-pragmatic relations: Parameters and features; Chapter 12. Conclusions; Backmatter.