Modality in contemporary English /
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| Imprint: | Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2003. |
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| Description: | xvi, 396 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Topics in English linguistics ; 44 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4956463 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface / Roberta Facchinetti, Manfred Krug and Frank Palmer
- Modality in English: Theoretical, descriptive and typological issues / Frank Palmer
- Irrealis, past time reference and modality / Paul Larreya
- Modal auxiliary constructions, TAM and interrogatives / Richard Matthews
- A pragmatic analysis of the epistemic would construction in English / Gregory Ward, Betty J. Birner and Jeffrey P. Kaplan
- Towards a contextual micro-analysis of the non-equivalence of might and could / Stephane Gresset
- On two distinct uses of go as a conjoined marker of evaluative modality / Philippe Bourdin
- Had better and might as well: On the margins of modality? / Keith Mitchell
- What you and I want: A functional approach to verb complementation of modal want to / Heidi Verplaetse
- Between epistemic modality and degree: The case of really / Carita Paradis
- Modality on the move: The English modal auxiliaries 1961-1992 / Geoffrey Leech
- Changes in the modals and semi-modals of strong obligation and epistemic necessity in recent British English / Nicholas Smith
- Shall and will in contemporary English: A comparison with past uses / Maurizio Gotti
- Pragmatic and sociological constraints on the functions of may in contemporary British English / Roberta Facchinetti
- The role of epistemic modality in women's talk / Jennifer Coates
- Double modals in the southern United States: Syntactic structure or syntactic structures? / Stephen J. Nagle
- Modal verbs in Tyneside English: Evidence for (socio)linguistic theory / Graeme Trousdale.
