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Re-assessing modalising expressions : categories, co-text, and context /

"Mood, modality and evidentiality are popular and dynamic areas in linguistics. Re-Assessing Modalising Expressions - Categories, co-text, and context focuses on the specific issue of the ways language users express permission, obligation, volition (intention), possibility and ability, necessit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hohaus, Pascal (Editor ), Schulze, Rainer, 1952- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020]
Colección:Studies in language companion series ; v. 216.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Modalising expressions and modality : an overview of trends and challenges / Rainer Schulze & Pascal Hohaus
  • Revisiting global and intra-categorial frequency shifts in the English modals : a usage-based, constructionist view on the heterogeneity of modal development / Robert Daugs
  • The scope of modal categories : an empirical study / Heiko Narrog
  • Not just frequency, not just modality : production and perception of English semi-modals / David Lorenz & David Tizón-Couto
  • How and why seem became an evidential / Günther Lampert
  • Conditionals, modality, and Schrödinger's cat : conditionals as a family of linguistic qubits / Costas Gabrielatos
  • Modal marking in conditionals. Grammar, usage and discourse / Heiko Narrog
  • Present-day English constructions with chance(s) in Talmy's greater modal system and beyond / An Van Linden & Lieselotte Brems
  • A genre-based analysis of evaluative modality in multi-verb sequences in English / Noriko Matsumoto
  • Epistemic modals in academic English : a contrastive study of engineering, medicine and linguistics research papers / María Luisa Carrió-Pastor
  • On the (con)textual properties of must, have to and shall : an integrative account / Grégory Furmaniak
  • "The future elected government should fully represent the interests of Hongkong people" : diachronic change in the use of modalising expressions in Hong Kong English between 1928 and 2018 / Carolin Biewer, Lisa Lehnen & Ninja Schulz.