Modality in English: Theory and Description

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2009

Modality in English

Theory and Description

Edited by: Raphael Salkie , Pierre Busuttil and Johan van der Auwera

Volume 58 in the series Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110213331

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About this book

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.

Thus the book provides new perspectives and answers on basic questions about modality, in general, and its expression in English, in particular.

Author / Editor information

Raphael Salkie, University of Brighton, UK; Pierre Busuttil, Université de Pau, France; Johan van der Auwera, University of Antwerp, Belgium.

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Introduction Raphael Salkie, Pierre Busuttil and Johan Auwera Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Towards a typology of modality in language Paul Larreya Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
‘Not-yet-factual at time t’: a neglected modal concept Renaat Declerck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
Semantic ascent, deixis, intersubjectivity and modality Keith Mitchell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
Degrees of modality Raphael Salkie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
Another look at modals and subjectivity Jelena Timotijevic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
For a topological representation of the modal system of English Alain Deschamps and Lionel Dufaye Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
Epistemic might in the interrogative Gilbert Ghio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
MAY in concessive contexts Jean-Claude Souesme Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
When may means must: deontic modality in English statute construction Ross Charnock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Legal English and the ‘modal revolution’ Christopher Williams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Posteriority in expressions with must and have to: a case of interplay between syntax, semantics and pragmatics An Verhulst Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Using the adjectives surprised/surprising to express epistemic modality Christiane Rocq-Migette Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
Commitment and subjectivity in the discourse of a judicial inquiry Juana I. Marín-Arrese Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
Hearsay adverbs and modality Agnès Celle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
When Yes means No, and other hidden modalities Claude Rivière Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295
Modality and the history of English adhortatives Manfred Krug Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315
On the “great modal shift” sustained by come to VP Philippe Bourdin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	349
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	375

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Linguists and Grammarians of English, Linguists working on Modality in General or on Semantics and the Interface between Semantics and Pragmatics
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 384
Keywords: English (language); modality (linguistics)

eBook

Published: June 23, 2009
ISBN: 9783110213331

Hardcover

Published: June 17, 2009
ISBN: 9783110196344