1. The Scope of the Study and Some Earlier Proposals -- 2. Mood and Modality -- 3. The Modals and Their Adverb Satellites: An Overview -- 4. The Adverb Satellites and their Modal Verb Heads -- 5. Modal-Adverb Collocations in English With Reference to Spanish -- 6. Conclusion and Implications
Summary
This new study on modality in English represents a departure from more traditional approaches to the subject, where the modal auxiliaries have been the usual focus of attention, by examining in detail the nature of their association with different categories of modal adverb. Modality is notoriously complex but the present work offers an accessible introduction to the topic, a comprehensive account of modal-adverb co-occurrence, and a reappraisal of the English modal system. The descriptive framework draws fresh insights from syntactic, semantic and pragmatic approaches to the study of language
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-303) and indexes
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