The Semantic Field of Modal Certainty : : A Corpus-Based Study of English Adverbs / / Karin Aijmer, Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen.
In spite of the vast literature on modality in English, very little research has been done on modal adverbs as a group. While there are studies of individual adverbs, the semantic and pragmatic relations between them have been left largely unexplored. This book takes a close look at the whole field...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] ,
56 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (395 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of contents
- Chapter 1. Aims, methodology and data
- Chapter 2. Establishing meaning relations: Problems
- and solutions
- Chapter 3. The linguistic categories of modality
- and evidentiality
- Chapter 4. An integrated model for describing
- adverbs of certainty
- Chapter 5. Classification of adverbs of
- certainty
- Chapter 6. The epistemic certainty adverbs
- certainly, definitely, indeed: Syntagmatic and paradigmatic
- dimensions
- Chapter 7. The epistemic certainty adverbs no
- doubt, surely: Syntagmatic and paradigmatic dimensions
- Chapter 8. Evidential, expectation and speech act
- adverbs: Syntagmatic and paradigmatic dimensions
- Chapter 9. Adverbs of certainty and the wider
- context: Text types and genres
- Chapter 10. Semantic-pragmatic relations: Networks
- and maps
- Chapter 11. Semantic-pragmatic relations:
- Parameters and features
- Chapter 12. Conclusions
- Backmatter