Modal Adjectives : : English Deontic and Evaluative Constructions in Diachrony and Synchrony / / An Van Linden.
The book revisits the notion of deontic modality from the perspective of an understudied category in the modal domain, viz. adjectives. On the basis of synchronic and diachronic corpus studies, it analyses the semantics of English adjectives like essential and appropriate, and uses this to refine tr...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] ,
75 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (363 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Table of contents
- List of tables
- List of figures
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. The notion of modality
- Chapter 2. Adjectives in the modal-evaluative domain
- Chapter 3. Data and methods of the diachronic analysis
- Chapter 4. The semantic development of the adjectival matrix
- Chapter 5. The diachrony of the clausal complement patterns
- Chapter 6. The diachrony of the complex constructions: The development of propositional complements
- Chapter 7. Data and methods of the synchronic synthesis and refinement
- Chapter 8. Synchronic constructions: Refinements of the conceptual map
- Chapter 9. Conclusion
- References
- Author index
- Subject index