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The semantic field of modal certainty : a corpus-based study of English adverbs /
"This book provides a detailed account of the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic properties of modal adverbs of certainly in present-day English. Methodologically if relies on three types of data: monolingual corpora, translation corpora and informant testing. It is the first in-depth study in w...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
Mouton de Gruyter,
©2007.
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| Colección: | Topics in English linguistics ;
56. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Ch. 1. Aims, methodology and data
- Ch. 2. Establishing meaning relations: Problems and solutions
- Ch. 3. The linguistic categories of modality and evidentiality
- Ch. 4. An integrated model for describing adverbs of certainty
- Ch. 5. Classification of adverbs of certainty
- Ch. 6. The epistemic certainty adverbs certainly, definitely, indeed: Syntagmatic and paradigmatic dimensions
- Ch. 7. The epistemic certainty adverbs no doubt, surely: Syntagmatic and paradigmatic dimensions
- Ch. 8. Evidential, expectation and speech act adverbs: Syntagmatic and paradigmatic dimensions
- Ch. 9. Adverbs of certainty and the wider context: Text types and genres
- Ch. 10. Semantic-pragmatic relations: Networks and maps
- Ch. 11. Semantic-pragmatic relations: Parameters and features
- Ch. 12. Conclusions.