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Modality : studies in form and function
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ISBN: 1845535618 9781845535612 Year: 2006 Publisher: London ; Oakville, Connecticut : Equinox,

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Modality: Studies in Form and Function reflects the diversity of theoretical frameworks and the heterogeneity of linguistic phenomena under the general heading of modality.

Aspects de la Modalité
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ISBN: 3484304693 3111823008 3110963434 Year: 2012 Volume: 469 Publisher: Tübingen : Max Niemeyer Verlag,

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Originating from papers presented at an international colloquium, the 18 articles in this volume reflect the different aspects of modality: general, lexical, temporal and modal. There is no one single definition or methodological approach to the study of modality. This is borne out by the range of these articles, with perspectives extending from different manifestation forms of modality to its different implications or values (alethic, deontic, epistemic, radical, etc.) and from modality in specific genres to contrastive and historical perspectives on the phenomenon.


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Multimodality across communicative settings, discourse domains and genres
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ISBN: 1443862657 9781443862653 1443811076 9781443811071 Year: 2016 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne

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Modality in underdescribed languages : methods and insights
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ISBN: 9783110721478 3110721473 9783110721560 3110721562 9783110721287 Year: 2023 Publisher: Berlin, Germany : Walter de Gruyter GmbH,

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"Current semantic fieldwork research has shown that the study of modality cannot be conducted via translation alone, yet much of what we know about modal expressions across the world's language is still translation-based. This book aims to facilitate the study of modality across more diverse languages and a wider participant base by explaining and illustrating a nuanced set of methods, including storyboards, questionnaires, corpora research, experimental tasks, as well as a discussion of practical semantic fieldwork techniques. The methodological protocols tested and employed by the authors on underdescribed languages - spanning seven different language families - are intended to be applicable as cross-linguistic tools, while also indicating the successes and challenges of their contributions. Expanding the study of modality to a wider set of underdescribed languages will undoubtedly bring new insights into our theoretical understanding of modality and deepen our understanding of a cross-linguistic typology of modal expressions."--Provided by publisher.


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Modality in Contemporary English

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This book offers original theoretical accounts and a wealth of descriptive information concerning modality in present-day English. At the same time, it provides fresh impetus to more general linguistic issues such as grammaticalization, colloquialization, or the interplay between sociolinguistic and syntactic constraints. The articles fall into four sections: (a) the semantics and pragmatics of core modal verbs; (b) the status of emerging modal items; (c) stylistic variation and change; (d) sociolinguistic variation and syntactic models. The book is of considerable value to students and teachers of English and Linguistics at undergraduate and graduate level worldwide.

Models for modalities: selected essays
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ISBN: 9027700788 9027705984 9401017115 Year: 1969 Publisher: Dordrecht Reidel

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Modalités prédicatives, modalités aspectuelles et auxiliaires en créole à base lexicale française de la Guyane française (XVIIIe - XXe siècles)
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ISBN: 3110931621 9783110931624 3484522836 9783484522831 Year: 1997 Publisher: Tübingen M. Niemeyer

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Le présent travail, qui suit le cadre théorique établi par B. Comrie, D. Bickerton et J. Bernabé, poursuit deux buts. Dans une démarche descriptive qui est à la fois synchronique et diachronique, il établit l'inventaire des éléments grammaticaux appartenant à la catégorie auxiliaire qui en créole guyanais contemporain et ancien servent à assurer la fonction prédicative de prédicats verbaux et non-verbaux dans des phrases simples et complexes. En second lieu, il cherche à trouver une réponse à la question de savoir dans quelle mesure les catégories relevées répondent à celles prédiquées par le système temps-mode-aspect proto-créole ou basilectal de D. Bickerton. Une place importante est également consacrée aux éléments facultatifs de l'auxiliaire, les modalités aspectuelles, et aux auxiliaires, puisqu'ils contribuent de manière originale à nuancer l'expression du temps, du mode et de l'aspect, et viennent en aide au système primaire d'opposition aspective et décidément secondaire d'opposition temporelle. D'autres paragraphes sont consacrés aux verbes et tours modaux, à la phrase négative et copulative, aux présentatifs, aux constructions de clivage etc. L'analyse se base sur un corpus de deux types. Le premier comprend les textes disponibles en créole guyanais (littérature orale, contes en prose, pièces de théâtre, etc.). Le deuxième repose sur des tests de grammaticalité que nous avons effectués pendant deux séjours en Guyane française, en 1992. Les résultats obtenus mettent en évidence d'abord que par rapport au créole du XIXe siècle, le système temps-mode-aspect du guyanais doit être considéré, tant sur le plan syntaxique que sur le plan sémantique, comme assez stable. En second lieu, ils amènent à mettre sérieusement en doute la présence d'un système temps-mode-aspect basilectal tel que le prévoit D. Bickerton.

Many-dimensional modal logics : theory and applications
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ISBN: 9780444508263 0444508260 9780080535784 008053578X 1281048518 9781281048516 9786611048518 Year: 2003 Publisher: Amsterdam : Elsevier,

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Modal logics, originally conceived in philosophy, have recently found many applications in computer science, artificial intelligence, the foundations of mathematics, linguistics and other disciplines. Celebrated for their good computational behaviour, modal logics are used as effective formalisms for talking about time, space, knowledge, beliefs, actions, obligations, provability, etc. However, the nice computational properties can drastically change if we combine some of these formalisms into a many-dimensional system, say, to reason about knowledge bases developing in time or moving objects.


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Modality in English : theory and description
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ISBN: 9783110196344 3110196344 9786612296512 1282296515 3110213338 9783110213331 9781282296510 6612296518 Year: 2009 Publisher: Berlin New York : Mouton de Gruyter,

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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.


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Modality in Japanese : the layered structure of the clause and hierarchies of functional categories
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ISBN: 9789027205766 9027205760 9786612104978 1282104977 9027289751 9789027289759 9781282104976 Year: 2009 Volume: 109 Publisher: Amsterdam Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co.,

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