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Modality in contemporary English /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Facchinetti, Roberta, 1967-, Krug, Manfred G., 1966-, Palmer, F. R. (Frank Robert)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2003.
Colección:Topics in English linguistics ; 44.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Modality in English: Theoretical, descriptive and typological issues
  • The semantics and pragmatics of core modal verbs
  • Irrealis, past time reference and modality
  • Modal auxiliary constructions, XAO and interrogatives
  • A pragmatic analysis of the epistemic would construction in English
  • Towards a contextual micro-analysis of the nonequivalence of might and could
  • The status of emerging modal items
  • On two distinct uses of go as a conjoined marker of evaluative modality
  • Had better and might as well·. On the margins of modality?
  • What you and I want: A functional approach to verb complementation of modal WANT TO
  • Between epistemic modality and degree: The case of really
  • Modality on the move: The English modal auxiliaries 1961-1992
  • Changes in the modals and semi-modals of strong obligation and epistemic necessity in recent British English
  • Shall and will in contemporary English: A comparison with past uses
  • Pragmatic and sociological constraints on the functions of may in contemporary British English
  • Sociolinguistic variation and syntactic models
  • The role of epistemic modality in women's talk.
  • Double modals in the southern United States: Syntactic structure or syntactic structures?
  • Modal verbs in Tyneside English: Evidence for (socio)linguistic theory
  • Subject index.