Modes of Modality in Spanish and English
Author: Dwight Le Merton Bolinger
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 10
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Author: Dwight Le Merton Bolinger
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 10
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Elisabeth Leiss
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2014-01-15
Total Pages: 519
ISBN-13: 9027270791
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe volume aims at a universal definition of modality or “illocutionary/speaker’s perspective force” that is strong enough to capture the entire range of different subtypes and varieties of modalities in different languages. The central idea is that modality is all-pervasive in language. This perspective on modality allows for the integration of covert modality as well as peripheral instances of modality in neglected domains such as the modality of insufficieny, of attitudinality, or neglected domains such as modality and illocutionary force in finite vs. nonfinite and factive vs. non-factive subordinated clauses. In most languages, modality encompasses modal verbs both in their root and epistemic meanings, at least where these languages have the principled distribution between root and epistemic modality in the first place (which is one fundamentally restricted, in its strict qualitative and quantitative sense, to the Germanic languages). In addition, this volume discusses one other intricate and partially highly mysterious class of modality triggers: modal particles as they are sported in the Germanic languages (except for English). It is argued in the contributions and the languages discussed in this volume how modal verbs and adverbials, next to modal particles, are expressed, how they are interlinked with contextual factors such as aspect, definiteness, person, verbal factivity, and assertivity as opposed to other attitudinal types. An essential concept used and argued for is perspectivization (a sub-concept of possible world semantics). Language groups covered in detail and compared are Slavic, Germanic, and South East Asian. The volume will interest researchers in theoretical and applied linguistics, typology, the semantics/pragmatics interface, and language philosophy as it is part of a larger project developing an alternative approach to Universal Grammar that is compatible with functionalist approaches.
Author: Andra Stefanescu
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Published: 2008-05-28
Total Pages: 89
ISBN-13: 3638054691
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiploma Thesis from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1, University of Bucharest (Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures), language: English, abstract: Modality is a semantic concept that covers notions such as possibility, probability, permission, ability, volition, necessity and obligation. The class of modals is in many languages both syntactically and semantically highly irregular and unpredictable: modals frequently have idiosyncratic conjugational patterns and are subject to highly specialized syntactic rules. One of the main characteristic of modal verbs is their relatively imprecise and indeterminate meaning, their ambiguity: the same modal can be deontic (i.e. based on rules and regulations), but it may also involve processes, sets of knowledge or belief systems, and thus get an epistemic interpretation. In order to define the class of modals or to provide a set of environments in which a modal may be correctly or appropriately used, one must refer to many levels of language: the purely syntactic environment, as well as the logical structure, the context of the utterance, the assumptions that are shared by the speaker and the addressee, the social situation assumed by the participants in the discourse, the impression the speaker wants to make on the addressee, and so on. There is also the question of the appropriate context environments, that is, the semantic-pragmatic issue. Therefore, a complete analysis of a particular modal can only be achieved by looking both at its syntactic features and at its semantic structure; in other words, the syntax of a modal verb is based on its semantics, and these two dimensions are inseparable.
Author: F.R. Palmer
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-02-04
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 131790091X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA detailed account of the many uses and functions of these verbs. The nature of modality, and some controversial issues, are also discussed.
Author: Raphael Salkie
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 3110196344
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMain 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.
Author: Kratochvílová, Dana
Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press
Published: 2018-08-01
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 802463869X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis monograph focuses on modality in Spanish. It presents the theoretical approach to this category formulated by Bohumil Zavadil and, consequently, it analyses its possible application to Spanish. We concentrate on specific areas of the Spanish modal system where two modal meanings combine. Theoretical analyses are combined with corpus-based studies concentrating on the choice of mood or contextual interpretation of selected constructions. We veryfied that areas where two modal meanings meet are a natural part of the Spanish modal system and that the combination of modal meanings has consequences on the mood selection.
Author: Roberta Facchinetti
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2012-02-13
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 3110895331
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Ann Marrano
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 488
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Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 212
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Norbert Dittmar
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2011-05-02
Total Pages: 409
ISBN-13: 3110856999
DOWNLOAD EBOOKModality in Language Acquisition / Modalité et acquisition des langues