Modality in Contemporary English / / ed. by Roberta Facchinetti, Frank Palmer, Manfred Krug.
This book offers original theoretical accounts and a wealth of descriptive information concerning modality in present-day English. At the same time, it provides fresh impetus to more general linguistic issues such as grammaticalization, colloquialization, or the interplay between sociolinguistic and...
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2012] ©2003 |
Year of Publication: | 2012 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (396 p.) :; Ill. and tabs. |
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Table of Contents:
- i-iv
- Preface
- Contents
- Modality in English: Theoretical, descriptive and typological issues
- The semantics and pragmatics of core modal verbs
- Irrealis, past time reference and modality
- Modal auxiliary constructions, ΤΑΜ and interrogatives
- A pragmatic analysis of the epistemic would construction in English
- Towards a contextual micro-analysis of the non-equivalence of might and could
- The status of emerging modal items
- On two distinct uses of go as a conjoined marker of evaluative modality
- Had better and might as well·. On the margins of modality?
- What you and I want: A functional approach to verb complementation of modal WANT TO
- Between epistemic modality and degree: The case of really
- Stylistic variation and change
- Modality on the move: The English modal auxiliaries 1961-1992
- Changes in the modals and semi-modals of strong obligation and epistemic necessity in recent British English
- Shall and will in contemporary English: A comparison with past uses
- Pragmatic and sociological constraints on the functions of may in contemporary British English
- Sociolinguistic variation and syntactic models
- The role of epistemic modality in women’s talk
- Double modals in the southern United States: Syntactic structure or syntactic structures?
- Modal verbs in Tyneside English: Evidence for (socio)linguistic theory
- Subject index