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Casebook in functional discourse grammar /

The theory of FDG claims that deontic modality can be either participant-oriented or event-oriented, both distinctions forming part of the Representational Level. However, there is evidence from Spanish and a number of other languages that event-oriented deontic modality can be coded twice, with dif...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mackenzie, J. Lachlan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2013.
Colección:Studies in language companion series ; v. 137,
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:The theory of FDG claims that deontic modality can be either participant-oriented or event-oriented, both distinctions forming part of the Representational Level. However, there is evidence from Spanish and a number of other languages that event-oriented deontic modality can be coded twice, with different values in one and the same State-of-Affairs. We will therefore distinguish between objective and subjective deontic modality, where the latter has scope over the former. On the basis of the ways in which the expressions of subjective and objective deontic modality interact with tense and othe.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789027271587
9027271585
1299794750
9781299794757
ISSN:0165-7763