Covert Patterns of Modality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Covert Patterns of Modality write by Werner Abraham. This book was released on 2012-11-15. Covert Patterns of Modality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This typological overview compares the degree to which different languages have means to give expression to modality (possibility, necessity) without lexical and direct inflectional means. The criterial patterns derive from a variety of languages such as German, English, Chinese, French, Scandinavian, Italian, Romanian, Russian, Polish, and Gothic as well as Old High German. They encompass mainly the auxiliaries HAVE and BE, together with either an infinitival embedding of a full verb linked by the infinitival preposition TO, or other aspectual means. It is demonstrated that what appears as typical covert modal expressions in the Germanic languages, and the Indo-European ones in a wider sense, cannot be seen as a recurrent pattern in non-Indo-European languages. Yet, there are recurrent and plausible forms that allow for generalizations.
Modes of Modality
Modes of Modality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Modes of Modality write by Elisabeth Leiss. This book was released on 2014-01-15. Modes of Modality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The volume aims at a universal definition of modality or “illocutionary/speaker’s perspective force” that is strong enough to capture the entire range of different subtypes and varieties of modalities in different languages. The central idea is that modality is all-pervasive in language. This perspective on modality allows for the integration of covert modality as well as peripheral instances of modality in neglected domains such as the modality of insufficieny, of attitudinality, or neglected domains such as modality and illocutionary force in finite vs. nonfinite and factive vs. non-factive subordinated clauses. In most languages, modality encompasses modal verbs both in their root and epistemic meanings, at least where these languages have the principled distribution between root and epistemic modality in the first place (which is one fundamentally restricted, in its strict qualitative and quantitative sense, to the Germanic languages). In addition, this volume discusses one other intricate and partially highly mysterious class of modality triggers: modal particles as they are sported in the Germanic languages (except for English). It is argued in the contributions and the languages discussed in this volume how modal verbs and adverbials, next to modal particles, are expressed, how they are interlinked with contextual factors such as aspect, definiteness, person, verbal factivity, and assertivity as opposed to other attitudinal types. An essential concept used and argued for is perspectivization (a sub-concept of possible world semantics). Language groups covered in detail and compared are Slavic, Germanic, and South East Asian. The volume will interest researchers in theoretical and applied linguistics, typology, the semantics/pragmatics interface, and language philosophy as it is part of a larger project developing an alternative approach to Universal Grammar that is compatible with functionalist approaches.
Modality and Theory of Mind Elements across Languages
Modality and Theory of Mind Elements across Languages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Modality and Theory of Mind Elements across Languages write by Werner Abraham. This book was released on 2012-05-29. Modality and Theory of Mind Elements across Languages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Modality is the way a speaker modifies her declaratives and other speech acts to optimally assess the common ground of knowledge and belief of the addressee with the aim to optimally achieve understanding and an assessment of relevant information exchange. In languages such as German (and other Germanic languages outside of English), this may happen in covert terms. Main categories used for this purpose are modal adverbials ("modal particles") and modal verbs. Epistemic uses of modal verbs (like German sollen) cover evidential (reportative) information simultaneously providing the source of the information. Methodologically, description and explanation rest on Karl Bühler's concept of Origo as well as Roman Jakobson's concept of shifter. Typologically, East Asian languages such as Japanese pursue these semasiological fundaments far more closely than the European languages. In particular, Japanese has to mark the source of a statement in the declarative mode such that the reliability may be assessed by the hearer. The contributions in this collection provide insight into these modal techniques.
Modality in Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics
Modality in Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Modality in Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics write by Werner Abraham. This book was released on 2020-09-17. Modality in Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An innovative survey that covers the linguistic questions of modality and mood, offering a new model for the phenomenon.
Definiteness Effects
Definiteness Effects - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Definiteness Effects write by Susann Fischer. This book was released on 2016-08-17. Definiteness Effects available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume explores in detail the empirical and conceptual content of the definiteness effect in grammar. It brings together a variety of relevant observations from a typological, diachronic and a bilingual/second language acquisition perspective, and provides a general overview of different approaches concerned with the syntactic, morphological, semantic, and pragmatic properties of the Definiteness Effect in a series of European and non-European languages.
