Modality in English
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Modality in English

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Modality in English

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This volume presents two kinds of studies on English modality.

On the one hand, there are strongly empirical, corpus-based studies of individual uses of English modal auxiliaries and modal constructions, such as may in interrogatives, might in concessive clauses, shall and may vs must in legal English, the use of surprised if and surprising if constructions, the use and history of adhortative constructions, or the modal-aspectual use of come to in I came to realize that X. The book also contains work that presents new views on some of the classical issues, like the relations between modality and time, modality and commitment, modals and (inter)subjectivity. A special place is given to work that approaches the English modals from the perspective of the 'Theory of Enunciative Operations' developed by the French linguist Antoine Culioli and his colleagues.

Thus the book provides new perspectives and answers on basic questions about modality, in general, and its expression in English, in particular.

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Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Year
2009
ISBN
9783110213331
Edition
1
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Linguistics
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Frontmatter
  2. Contents
  3. Introduction
  4. Towards a typology of modality in language
  5. ‘Not-yet-factual at time t’: a neglected modal concept
  6. Semantic ascent, deixis, intersubjectivity and modality
  7. Degrees of modality
  8. Another look at modals and subjectivity
  9. For a topological representation of the modal system of English
  10. Epistemic might in the interrogative
  11. MAY in concessive contexts
  12. When may means must: deontic modality in English statute construction
  13. Legal English and the ‘modal revolution’
  14. Posteriority in expressions with must and have to: a case of interplay between syntax, semantics and pragmatics
  15. Using the adjectives surprised/surprising to express epistemic modality
  16. Commitment and subjectivity in the discourse of a judicial inquiry
  17. Hearsay adverbs and modality
  18. When Yes means No, and other hidden modalities
  19. Modality and the history of English adhortatives
  20. On the “great modal shift” sustained by come to VP
  21. Backmatter