Modes of Modality in Spanish and English - 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 in Spanish and English write by Dwight Le Merton Bolinger. This book was released on 1970. Modes of Modality in Spanish and English available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
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 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. What do we mean when we say things like 'If only we knew what he was up to!' Clearly this is more than just a message, or a question to our addressee. We are expressing simultaneously that we don't know, and also that we wish to know. Several modes of encoding contribute to such modalities of expression: word order, subordinating subjunctions, sentences that are subordinated but nevertheless occur autonomously, and attitudinal discourse adverbs which, far beyond lexical adverbials of modality, allow the speaker and the listener to presuppose full agreement, partial agreement under presupposed conditions, or negotiation of common ground. This state of the art survey proposes a new model of modality, drawing on data from a variety of Germanic and Slavic languages to find out what is cross-linguistically universal about modality, and to argue that it is a constitutive part of human cognition.
The modal verbs can and may in English and Spanish
The modal verbs can and may in English and Spanish - 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 The modal verbs can and may in English and Spanish write by Andra Stefanescu. This book was released on 2008-05-28. The modal verbs can and may in English and Spanish available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Diploma Thesis from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1, University of Bucharest (Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures), language: English, abstract: Modality is a semantic concept that covers notions such as possibility, probability, permission, ability, volition, necessity and obligation. The class of modals is in many languages both syntactically and semantically highly irregular and unpredictable: modals frequently have idiosyncratic conjugational patterns and are subject to highly specialized syntactic rules. One of the main characteristic of modal verbs is their relatively imprecise and indeterminate meaning, their ambiguity: the same modal can be deontic (i.e. based on rules and regulations), but it may also involve processes, sets of knowledge or belief systems, and thus get an epistemic interpretation. In order to define the class of modals or to provide a set of environments in which a modal may be correctly or appropriately used, one must refer to many levels of language: the purely syntactic environment, as well as the logical structure, the context of the utterance, the assumptions that are shared by the speaker and the addressee, the social situation assumed by the participants in the discourse, the impression the speaker wants to make on the addressee, and so on. There is also the question of the appropriate context environments, that is, the semantic-pragmatic issue. Therefore, a complete analysis of a particular modal can only be achieved by looking both at its syntactic features and at its semantic structure; in other words, the syntax of a modal verb is based on its semantics, and these two dimensions are inseparable.
Modality and the English Modals
Modality and the English Modals - 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 the English Modals write by F.R. Palmer. This book was released on 2014-02-04. Modality and the English Modals available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A detailed account of the many uses and functions of these verbs. The nature of modality, and some controversial issues, are also discussed.
