Modality in Contemporary English

1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-3-11-017686-5
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, 396 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 765 g

Reihe: ISSN

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.

Zielgruppe

Students, Scholars, Academic Libraries, Institutes

Autoren/Hrsg.

Facchinetti, Roberta

Krug, Manfred

Palmer, Frank

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sprachsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Roberta Facchinetti, Manfred Krug, Frank Palmer Modality in English: theoretical, descriptive and typological issues
Frank Palmer
The semantics and pragmatics of core modal verbs Irrealis, past time reference and modality
Paul Larreya Modal auxiliary constructions, TAM and interrogatives
Richard Matthews A pragmatic analysis of the epistemic would construction in English
Gregory Ward, Betty J. Birner, Jeffrey P. Kaplan Towards a contextual micro-analysis of the non-equivalence of might and could
Stéphane Gresset
The status of emerging modal items On two distinct uses of go as a conjoined marker of evaluative modality
Philippe Bourdin Had better and might as well: on the margins of modality?
Keith Mitchell What you and I want: A functional approach to verb complementation of modal want to
Heidi Verplaetse Between epistemic modality and degree: the case of really
Carita ParadisStylistic variation and change Modality on the move: the English modal auxiliaries 1961-1992
Geoffrey Leech

Über Autor(innen)

Roberta Facchinetti is Associate Professor at the University of Verona, Italy. Manfred Krug is Associate Professor at the University of Freiburg, Germany. Frank R. Palmer is Professor Emeritus at the University of Reading, UK.