Deontic Modality
Deontic Modality

Author: Nate Charlow

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016-09-06

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 0191027766

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An extraordinary amount of recent work by philosophers of language, meta-ethicists, and semanticists has focused on the meaning and function of language expressing concepts having to do with what is allowed, forbidden, required, or obligatory, in view of the requirements of morality, the law, one's preferences or goals, or what an authority has commanded: in short, deontic modality. This volume presents new work on the much-discussed topic of deontic modality by leading figures in the philosophy of language, meta-ethics, and linguistic semantics. The papers tackle issues about the place of decision and probability theory in the semantics of deontic modality, the viability of standard possible worlds treatments of the truth conditions of deontic modal sentences, the possibility of dynamic semantic treatments of deontic modality, the methodology of semantics for deontic modals, and the prospects for representationalist, expressivist, and inferentialist treatments of deontic modality.

Mood and Modality
Mood and Modality

Author: Frank Robert Palmer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2001-04-16

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9780521804790

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Palmer investigates the category of modality, drawing on a wealth of examples from a wide variety of languages.

Deontic Modality
Deontic Modality

Author: Nate Charlow

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 443

ISBN-13: 019871792X

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This volume presents new work on the much-discussed topic of deontic modality: the meaning and function of language relating to what is allowed, required, or obligatory, in view of moral or legal demands. A team of leading experts in philosophy of language, meta-ethics, and linguistics tackle key issues at the heart of the debate.

Corpus Linguistics and Sociolinguistics
Corpus Linguistics and Sociolinguistics

Author: Beke Hansen

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-12-24

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13: 900438152X

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In Corpus Linguistics and Sociolinguistics, Beke Hansen analyses variation and change in the modal systems of three second-language varieties of English in Asia by taking a sociolinguistic approach to corpus data. Her study focuses on the modal and semi-modal verbs of strong obligation and necessity in Hong Kong English, Indian English, and Singapore English based on the relevant ICE component corpora. She adopts a typologically-informed perspective on variation in World Englishes by comparing the structures of the speakers’ first languages with the structures of the emergent varieties in the expression of epistemic modality. Beyond this, she analyses language change by constructing apparent-time scenarios to compensate for the lack of diachronic corpora in World Englishes.

Modality in Contemporary English
Modality in Contemporary English

Author: Roberta Facchinetti

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2012-02-13

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 3110895331

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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 syntactic constraints. The articles fall into four sections: (a) the semantics and pragmatics of core modal verbs; (b) the status of emerging modal items; (c) stylistic variation and change; (d) sociolinguistic variation and syntactic models. The book is of considerable value to students and teachers of English and Linguistics at undergraduate and graduate level worldwide.

Modality and Propositional Attitudes
Modality and Propositional Attitudes

Author: Michael Hegarty

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-01-25

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 1316467783

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This book shows that the semantic analysis of modal notions of possibility and necessity can be used to enhance our understanding of the interpretation of reports of belief or emotional state. It introduces intuitive notation and terminology to express ideas in modern theories of modal interpretation that are normally represented in complex logical formulas, effectively updates the 1960s-era link between possible worlds and the semantics of propositional attitude ascriptions, and reconciles two disparate views of the role of events in semantic interpretation, that of Donald Davidson and that of David Lewis. It reduces a host of variable behaviors of propositional attitude ascription to an intuitive and precise distinction between ascriptions that merely express a commitment to propositional content versus ones that attribute a mental state to the holder of the propositional attitude. This leads to an explanation of the nature and effects of the language disorder of fluent aphasia.

Modality in English
Modality in English

Author: Raphael Salkie

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 3110196344

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Main description: This volume presents strongly empirical, corpus-based studies of a range of English modal auxiliaries and modal constructions in specific uses. It also approaches some of the classic issues in the field of modality from new perspectives, notably that of the 'Theory of Enunciative Operations' developed by the French linguist Antoine Culioli and his colleagues.

Modality and the English Modals
Modality and the English Modals

Author: F.R. Palmer

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-02-04

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 131790091X

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A detailed account of the many uses and functions of these verbs. The nature of modality, and some controversial issues, are also discussed.

Modality in Japanese
Modality in Japanese

Author: Heiko Narrog

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9027205760

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This book presents a systematic corpus-based study of the semantic and morphosyntactic interaction of modality with tense, aspect, negation, and modal markers embedded in subordinate clauses. The results are critically compared with extant theories of hierarchies of grammatical categories, including those in Functional Grammar, Role and Reference Grammar, and the Cartography of Syntactic Structures.

Modality-aspect Interfaces
Modality-aspect Interfaces

Author: Werner Abraham

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 9027229929

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The main topics pursued in this volume are based on empirical insights derived from Germanic: logical and typological dispositions about aspect-modality links. These are probed in a variety of non-related languages. The logically establishable links are the following: Modal verbs are aspect sensitive in the selection of their infinitival complements – embedded infinitival perfectivity implies root modal reading, whereas embedded infinitival imperfectivity triggers epistemic readings. However, in marked contexts such as negated ones, the aspectual affinities of modal verbs are neutralized or even subject to markedness inversion. All of this suggests that languages that do not, or only partially, bestow upon full modal verb paradigms seek to express modal variations in terms of their aspect oppositions. This typological tenet is investigated in a variety of languages from Indo-European (German, Slavic, Armenian), African, Asian, Amerindian, and Creoles. Seeming deviations and idiosyncrasies in the interaction between aspect and modality turn out to be highly rule-based.