Modality in Underdescribed Languages : : Methods and Insights /

Modality in Underdescribed Languages : : Methods and Insights / / ed. by Jozina Vander Klok, Núbia Ferreira Rech, Simone Guesser.

Current semantic fieldwork research has shown that the study of modality cannot be conducted via translation alone, yet much of what we know about modal expressions across the world’s language is still translation-based. This book aims to facilitate the study of modality across more diverse language...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Agostinho, Ana Lívia,
Chen, Sihwei,
Cournane, Ailís,
Coutinho Costa, Isabella,
Ferreira Rech, Núbia,
Ferreira, Luiz Fernando,
Fuentes, Pablo,
Guesser, Simone,
Hacquard, Valentine,
Huijsmans, Marianne,
Kolagar, Zahra,
Matthewson, Lisa,
Müller, Ana,
Pessotto, Ana Lúcia,
Reisinger, Daniel,
Rullmann, Hotze,
Vander Klok, Jozina,
HerausgeberIn:
Ferreira Rech, Núbia ,
Guesser, Simone,
Vander Klok, Jozina,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 357
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VI, 423 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction to Modality in underdescribed languages: Methods and insights
  • Part I: Contributions of different methods for studying modality
  • 1 Fieldwork techniques in semantics
  • 2 Studying modality through targeted construction storyboards
  • 3 Discourse contexts targeting modality in fieldwork: A revised modal questionnaire
  • 4 Using corpora to investigate modal-temporal interactions
  • 5 Adapting acquisition methodologies to study modality in underdescribed languages
  • Part II: Lessons from case studies on underdescribed languages
  • 6 On applying semantic fieldwork elicitation techniques to describe modality in Ye’kwana
  • 7 Modality in elicited data and spontaneous texts: A case study of Atayal
  • 8 Lessons from the field: Irrealis mood in Lung’Ie
  • 9 Analyzing ʔayʔaǰuθəm evidentials: Evidence for epistemic modality
  • 10 Parameters for the production of discourse contexts: Eliciting the semantics of obligations and desires in Mapudungun
  • Subject index

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