Salkie / Busuttil / Auwera Modality in English

Theory and Description
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-3-11-021333-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 58, 390 Seiten, Gewicht: 10 g

Reihe: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Salkie, Raphael

Busuttil, Pierre

Auwera, Johan van der

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Frontmatter;1
2;Contents;5
3;Introduction;7
4;Towards a typology of modality in language;15
5;‘Not-yet-factual at time t’: a neglected modal concept;37
6;Semantic ascent, deixis, intersubjectivity and modality;61
7;Degrees of modality;85
8;Another look at modals and subjectivity;111
9;For a topological representation of the modal system of English;129
10;Epistemic might in the interrogative;151
11;MAY in concessive contexts;165
12;When may means must: deontic modality in English statute construction;183
13;Legal English and the ‘modal revolution’;205
14;Posteriority in expressions with must and have to: a case of interplay between syntax, semantics and pragmatics;217
15;Using the adjectives surprised/surprising to express epistemic modality;229
16;Commitment and subjectivity in the discourse of a judicial inquiry;243
17;Hearsay adverbs and modality;275
18;When Yes means No, and other hidden modalities;301
19;Modality and the history of English adhortatives;321
20;On the “great modal shift” sustained by come to VP;355
21;Backmatter;381

Über Autor(innen)

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