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Modes of modality : modality, typology, and universal grammar /

Modality is one of the grammatical categories in Igbo language studies that received the least attention within the last century. There is, however, a growing awareness that the category of modality is expressed in the language through specific verbs and suffixes that have recently been (re- )catego...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Leiss, Elisabeth (Editor ), Abraham, Werner (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2014]
Colección:Studies in language companion series ; v. 149.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Formal properties of modality
  • Interpreting modals by phase heads / Daigo Akiba
  • Evidentiality straddling T- and C-domains / Nadia Varley
  • Typological surveys
  • The syntax of modal polyfunctionality revisited : evidence from the languages of Europe / Björn Hansen
  • Mora da as a marker of modal meanings in Macedonian : on correlations between categorial restrictions and morphosyntactic behaviour / Björn Wiemer
  • Modal semantics and morphosyntax of the Latvian debitive / Ilze Lokmane & Andra Kalnača
  • Deontic or epistemic? habēre as a modal marker of future certainty in Macedonian / Liljana Mitkovska & Eleni Bužarovska
  • Epistemic, evidential and attitudinal markers in clause-medial position in Cantonese / Foong Ha Yap & Winnie Oi-Wan Chor
  • Interfaces between mood and modality
  • Modal particles in rationale clauses and related constructions / Patrick Grosz
  • Modal particles in causal clauses : the case of German weil wohl / Mathias Schenner & Frank Sode
  • Modality conceptualizations
  • Enablement and possibility / Raphael Salkie
  • The modal category of sufficiency / Chantal Melis
  • Diachronie derivation
  • From agent-oriented modality to sequential : the polysemy of the marker ni in Kakabe (Mande) / Alexandra Vydrina
  • Covert modality
  • A rare case of covert modality : Spoken Polish and the novel periphrastic past with mieć 'have' / Werner Abraham & Jadwiga Piskorz
  • (C)Overt epistemic modality and its perspectival effects on the textual surface / Sonja Zeman
  • Dimensions of implicit modality in Igbo / Chinedu Uchechukwu
  • Index.