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1 online resource (xiii, 392 pages) : illustrations |
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Topics in English linguistics ; 44 |
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Topics in English linguistics ; 44.
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Preface -- Contents -- Modality in English: Theoretical, descriptive and typological issues -- The semantics and pragmatics of core modal verbs -- Irrealis, past time reference and modality -- Modal auxiliary constructions, XAO and interrogatives -- A pragmatic analysis of the epistemic would construction in English -- Towards a contextual micro-analysis of the nonequivalence of might and could -- The status of emerging modal items -- On two distinct uses of go as a conjoined marker of evaluative modality -- Had better and might as well·. On the margins of modality? |
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What you and I want: A functional approach to verb complementation of modal WANT TO -- Between epistemic modality and degree: The case of really -- Modality on the move: The English modal auxiliaries 1961-1992 -- Changes in the modals and semi-modals of strong obligation and epistemic necessity in recent British English -- Shall and will in contemporary English: A comparison with past uses -- Pragmatic and sociological constraints on the functions of may in contemporary British English -- Sociolinguistic variation and syntactic models -- The role of epistemic modality in women's talk |
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Double modals in the southern United States: Syntactic structure or syntactic structures? -- Modal verbs in Tyneside English: Evidence for (socio)linguistic theory -- Subject index |
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Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
English language -- Modality.
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Modality (Linguistics)
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English language -- Modality
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Modality (Linguistics)
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Modaliteit.
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Engels.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Facchinetti, Roberta, 1967-
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Krug, Manfred G., 1966-
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Palmer, F. R. (Frank Robert)
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| ISBN |
9783110895339 |
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3110895331 |
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