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Modality in English: Theory and Description

Modality in English: Theory and Description

Salkie, Raphael
Busuttil, Pierre
Auwera, Johan Van Der

Hardcover

Series: Topics in English Linguistics, Book 58

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ISBN10: 3110196344
ISBN13: 9783110196344
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
Published: Jun 17 2009
Pages: 390
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

This volume presents two kinds of studies on English modality.

On the one hand, there are strongly empirical, corpus-based studies of individual uses of English modal auxiliaries and modal constructions, such as may in interrogatives, might in concessive clauses, shall and may vs must in legal English, the use of surprised if and surprising if constructions, the use and history of adhortative constructions, or the modal-aspectual use of come to in I came to realize that X. The book also contains work that presents new views on some of the classical issues, like the relations between modality and time, modality and commitment, modals and (inter)subjectivity. A special place is given to work that approaches the English modals from the perspective of the 'Theory of Enunciative Operations' developed by the French linguist Antoine Culioli and his colleagues.

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