Modality in English

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ISBN: 9783110196344 | 3110196344
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 6/30/2009

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This volume presents strongly empirical, corpus-based studies of a range of English modal auxiliaries and modal constructions in specific uses. It also approaches some of the classic issues in the field of modality from new perspectives, notably that of the 'Theory of Enunciative Operations' developed by the French linguist Antoine Culioli and his colleagues.

Introduction	p. 1
Towards a typology of modality in language	p. 9
'Not-yet-factual at time t': a neglected modal concept	p. 31
Semantic ascent, deixis, intersubjectivity and modality	p. 55
Degrees of modality	p. 79
Another look at modals and subjectivity	p. 105
For a topological representation of the modal system of English	p. 123
Epistemic might in the interrogative	p. 145
MAY in concessive contexts	p. 159
When may means must: deontic modality in English statute construction	p. 177
Legal English and the 'modal revolution'	p. 199
Posteriority in expressions with must and have to: a case of interplay between syntax, semantics and pragmatics	p. 211
Using the adjectives surprised/surprising to express epistemic modality	p. 223
Commitment and subjectivity in the discourse of a judicial inquiry	p. 237
Hearsay adverbs and modality	p. 269
When Yes means No, and other hidden modalities	p. 295
Modality and the history of English adhortatives	p. 315
On the "great modal shift" sustained by come to VP	p. 349
List of contributors	p. 375
Author index	p. 377
Subject index	p. 380
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