Modality and Mood in Romance : : Modal interpretation, mood selection, and mood alternation / / ed. by Martin G. Becker, Eva-Maria Remberger.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Becker, Martin G.,; Blühdorn, Hardarik,; Giurgea, Ion,; Haßler, Gerda,; Lindschouw, Jan,; Marques, Rui,; Quer, Josep,; Reichmann, Tinka,; Remberger, Eva-Maria,; Schmid, Sarah Dessì,; Soare, Elena,; Squartini, Mario,
• HerausgeberIn: Becker, Martin G.,; Remberger, Eva-Maria,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2010]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Linguistische Arbeiten , 533
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (245 p.)

Dieser Sammelband enthält eine Auswahl von Forschungsbeiträgen, die auf dem 30. Deutschen Romanistentag 2007 in Wien innerhalb der Sektion „Modus und Modalität in den romanischen Sprachen“ vorgestellt wurden. Dieser Titel nahm Bezug auf Palmers bekannte Monographie Mood and Modality, wobei für die P...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of contents
• Modality and Mood in Romance: An introduction
• I. Modal interpretation
• Modal readings of sentence connectives in German and Portuguese
• ‘Modal uses’ of the Italian imperfetto and the Spanish imperfecto: a comparison
• Modal non-finite relatives in Romance
• Epistemic modality and evidentiality and their definition on a deictic basis
• Where mood, modality and illocution meet: the morphosyntax of Romance conjectures
• II. Mood selection and mood alternation
• Modality, context change potential and mood selection in European Portuguese
• On the (un)stability of mood distribution in Romance
• Grammaticalization and language comparison in the Romance mood system
• Principles of mood change in evaluative contexts: the case of French
• Backmatter