COMPLEMENTATION: ITS MEANINGS AND FORMS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; PREFACE; CHAPTER I. An Introduction to Complement Meanings and Forms; CHAPTER II. The Information Modalities; CHAPTER III. The Evaluation Modalities; CHAPTER IV. The Combined Modalities; CHAPTER V. The Higher Sentence and Its Complement Modalities; CHAPTER VI. The Representation of Modality and Its Implications; REFERENCES
Summary
This book presents a stage in the evolution of a theory of modality meanings and forms. It covers exclusively complements. There are two questions that this book addresses. Can one find a small, finite set of meanings which systematically underlies the enormous variety of meanings found in complements? And can one make any predictions from this set of meanings about the variety of forms they take? The answer to both questions is yes. The author convincingly shows how a multiplicity of sentence meanings and forms can be accounted for by breaking down sentence meaning into a small set of modules
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-226)
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