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Modality in Contemporary English /
This book offers original theoretical accounts and a wealth of descriptive information concerning modality in present-day English. At the same time, it provides fresh impetus to more general linguistic issues such as grammaticalization, colloquialization, or the interplay between sociolinguistic and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter Mouton,
[2012]
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| Colección: | Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] ;
44 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Modality in English: Theoretical, descriptive and typological issues
- The semantics and pragmatics of core modal verbs
- Irrealis, past time reference and modality
- Modal auxiliary constructions, ??? and interrogatives
- A pragmatic analysis of the epistemic would construction in English
- Towards a contextual micro-analysis of the non-equivalence of might and could
- The status of emerging modal items
- On two distinct uses of go as a conjoined marker of evaluative modality
- Had better and might as well·. On the margins of modality?
- What you and I want: A functional approach to verb complementation of modal WANT TO
- Between epistemic modality and degree: The case of really
- Stylistic variation and change
- Modality on the move: The English modal auxiliaries 1961-1992
- Changes in the modals and semi-modals of strong obligation and epistemic necessity in recent British English
- Shall and will in contemporary English: A comparison with past uses
- Pragmatic and sociological constraints on the functions of may in contemporary British English
- Sociolinguistic variation and syntactic models
- The role of epistemic modality in women's talk
- Double modals in the southern United States: Syntactic structure or syntactic structures?
- Modal verbs in Tyneside English: Evidence for (socio)linguistic theory
- Subject index