Subordinating Modalities - 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 Subordinating Modalities write by Pascal Hohaus. This book was released on 2020-02-26. Subordinating Modalities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study is concerned with the use of the English modals (may, might,can, could, shall, should, will, would and must) in adverbial, relative and complement clauses. It employs synchronic data from the British National Corpus and quantitative methods to investigate similarities and differences between the core modals, as well as modal-specific preferences in subordinate clauses. The main finding is that modal verbs in subordinate clauses may be conceived of as meso-constructions and that they qualify as micro-constructions once further syntagmatic features are considered. This allows for distinguishing modal verb phrases with different degrees of complexity, schematicity, productivity and subjectivity. Further applications give us insights into collocations, modal harmony, semantic preference, and the attraction of dynamic meaning to relative clauses.
Modality and Subordinators
Modality and Subordinators - 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 Subordinators write by Jackie Nordstrom. This book was released on 2010. Modality and Subordinators available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book connects two linguistic phenomena, modality and subordinators, so that both are seen in a new light, each adding to the understanding of the other. It argues that general subordinators (or complementizers) denote propositional modality (otherwise expressed by moods such as the indicative-subjunctive and epistemic-evidential modal markers). The book explores the hypothesis both on a cross-linguistic and on a language-branch specific level (the Germanic languages). One obvious connection between the indicative-subjunctive distinction and subordinators is that the former is typically manifested in subordinate clauses. Furthermore, both the indicative-subjunctive and subordinators determine clause types. More importantly, however, it is shown, through data from various languages, that subordinators themselves often denote the indicative-subjunctive distinction. In the Germanic languages, there is variation in many clause types between both the indicative and the subjunctive and "that" and "if "depending on the speaker s and/or the subject s certainty of the truth of the proposition."
Modality, Subjectivity, and Semantic Change
Modality, Subjectivity, and Semantic Change - 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, Subjectivity, and Semantic Change write by Heiko Narrog. This book was released on 2012-07-19. Modality, Subjectivity, and Semantic Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a cross-linguistic exploration of semantic and functional change in modal markers. With a focus on Japanese and to a lesser extent Chinese the book is a countercheck to hypotheses built on the Indo-European languages. It also contains numerous illustrations from other languages.
Modality in Contact
Modality in Contact - 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 Contact write by Carmelo Alessandro Basile. This book was released on 2024-09-02. Modality in Contact available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the evolution of modal constructions of necessity and obligation in New Englishes. Focusing on Singapore English, analysis of corpus data reveals lower levels of grammaticalization compared to its lexifier, British English. This trend is explained through the lenses of a “pan-stratist” model, which considers a spectrum of forces influencing the dynamics of contact. On the one hand, cognitive mechanisms seem to favour the selection of less grammaticalized (and more transparent) variants from the lexifier. On the other hand, the substrate is positioned as a background force, actively contributing to the selection of new material to address functional gaps in the system.
Models of Modals
Models of 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 Models of Modals write by Ilse Depraetere. This book was released on 2023-04-27. Models of Modals available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Modal verbs in English communicate delicate shades of meaning, there being a large range of verbs both on the necessity side (must, have to, should, ought to, need, need to) and the possibility side (can, may, could, might, be able to). They therefore constitute excellent test ground to apply and compare different methodologies that can lay bare the factors that drive the speaker’s choice of modal verb. This book is not merely concerned with a purely grammatical description of the use of modal verbs, but aims at advancing our understanding of lexical and grammatical units in general and of linguistic methodologies to explore these. It thus involves a genuine effort to compare, assess and combine a variety of approaches. It complements the leading descriptive qualitative work on modal verbs by testing a diverse range of quantitative methods, while not ignoring qualitative issues pertaining to the semantics-pragmatics interface. Starting from a critical assessment of what constitutes the meaning of modal verbs, different types of empirical studies (usage-based, data-driven and experimental), drawing considerably on the same data sets, shows how method triangulation can contribute to an enhanced understanding. Due attention is also given to individual variation as well as the degree to which modals can predict L2 proficiency level.
