English modality : : core, periphery and evidentiality / / edited by Juana I. Marin-Arrese [and three others].
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| Superior document: | Topics in English linguistics, volume 81 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin : : De Gruyter Mouton,, [2013] 2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Topics in English linguistics ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (459 pages) :; illustrations. |
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Table of Contents:
- Modals : striving for control / Ronald Langacker
- Contemporary change in modal usage in spoken British English : mapping the impact of "genre" / Jill Bowie, Sean Wallis and Bas Aarts
- Where have all the modals gone? : an essay on the declining frequency of core modal auxiliaries in recent standard English / Geoffrey Leech
- Had better, 'd better and better : diachronic and transatlantic variation / Johan van der Auwera, Dirk Noel and An van Linden
- Grammatical colloquialism and the English quasi-modals : a comparative study / Peter Collins
- Modal necessity and impersonality in English and Galician / Lucia Loureiro-Porto
- Modal uses of the English present progressive / Frank Brisard and Astrid De Wit
- On the generic argument for the modality of will / Debra Ziegeler
- Reality and related concepts : towards a semantic-pragmatic map of English adverbs / Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen
- A cross-linguistic look at the multifunctionality of the English verb seem / Aurelija Usoniene and Jolanta Sinkuniene
- Annotating English adverbials for the categories of epistemic modality and evidentiality / Marta Carretero and Juan Rafael Zamorano-Mansilla
- Modal verbs in news-related blogs : when the blogger counts / Roberta Facchinetti
- Modality and personal pronouns as indexical markers of stance : intersubjective positioning and construction of public identity in media interviews / Laura Hidalgo Downing and Begonia Nunez Perucha
- Stancetaking and inter/subjectivity in the Iraq inquiry : Blair vs. Brown / Juana I. Marin-Arrese.