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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2014]
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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.