Mood and modality /

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Author / Creator:Palmer, F. R. (Frank Robert)
Imprint:Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Description:xii, 243 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Cambridge textbooks in linguistics
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/788527
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ISBN:0521265169 (U.S.)
0521319307 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes indexes.
Bibliography: p. 227-235.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Modal systems: propositional modality
  • 3. Modal systems: event modality
  • 4. Modal systems and modal verbs
  • 5. Indicative and subjunctive
  • 6. Realis and Irrealis
  • 7. Subjunctive and Irrealis
  • 8. Past tense as modal