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Modality in English : theory and description /
This volume presents two kinds of studies on English modality. On the one hand, there are strongly empirical, corpus-based studies of individual uses of English modal auxiliaries and modal constructions, such as may in interrogatives, might in concessive clauses, shall and may vs must in legal Engli...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
M. de Gruyter,
©2009.
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| Colección: | Topics in English linguistics ;
58. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter; Contents; Introduction; Towards a typology of modality in language; 'Not-yet-factual at time t': a neglected modal concept; Semantic ascent, deixis, intersubjectivity and modality; Degrees of modality; Another look at modals and subjectivity; For a topological representation of the modal system of English; Epistemic might in the interrogative; MAY in concessive contexts; When may means must: deontic modality in English statute construction; Legal English and the 'modal revolution'
- Posteriority in expressions with must and have to: a case of interplay between syntax, semantics and pragmaticsUsing the adjectives surprised/surprising to express epistemic modality; Commitment and subjectivity in the discourse of a judicial inquiry; Hearsay adverbs and modality; When Yes means No, and other hidden modalities; Modality and the history of English adhortatives; On the "great modal shift" sustained by come to VP; Backmatter.