Modal Adjectives : English Deontic and Evaluative Constructions in Diachrony and Synchrony.
The book revisits the notion of deontic modality from the perspective of an understudied category in the modal domain, viz. adjectives. It analyses extraposition constructions with English adjectives like essential and appropriate, and uses this to refine traditional definitions of deontic modality....
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter Mouton,
2012.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |