Modality in grammar and discourse /
Otros autores o Colaboradores: | , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |
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Formato: | Libro |
Lengua: | inglés |
Datos de publicación: |
Amsterdam :
John Benjamins,
1995.
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Series: | Typological studies in language ;
32 |
Temas: | |
Descripción Física: | viii, 575 p. |
ISBN: | 9027229252 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Agent-oriented vs. epistemic modality : Some observations on German modals / Bernd Heine
- The Expression of root and epistemic possibility in English / Jennifer Coates
- Contextual conditions for the interpretation of poder and deber in Spanish / Carmen Silva-Corvalán
- The Obligation modality in western nilotic languages / Edith Bavin
- The Gestural expression of modality in ASL / Sherman Wilcox, Phyllis Wilcox
- The Development of epistemic sentence-ending modal forms and functions in Korean children / Soonja Choi
- The Interactional basis of the mandarin modal néng can / Jiansheng Guo
- The Discourse and interactive functions of obligation expressions / John Myhill, Laura A. Smith
- Apprehensional epistemics / Frantisek Lichtenberk
- Moods and metamessages : Alienation as a mood / John Haiman
- The Realis-irrealis distinction in Caddo, the Northern Iroquoian languages, and English / Wallace Chafe
- On the relativity of irreality / Marianne Mithun
- The Grammaticalization of irrealis in tok pisin / Suzanne Romaine
- The Evaluative function of the Spanish subjunctive / Patricia V. Lunn
- Negation and the modals of possibility and necessity / Frank Palmer
- A functional theory of complementizers / Zygmunt Frajzyngier
- The Semantic development of past tense modals in English / John Bybee
- Imperfective and irrealis / Zuzanne Fleischman