Revisiting Modality

A corpus-based study of epistemic adverbs in Galician

Vítor Míguez | Instituto da Lingua Galega / University of Santiago de Compostela

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This book presents the first in-depth investigation of modality in Galician linguistics, offering a theoretical discussion of modal categories and a fine-grained description of epistemic adverbs. The first half of the monograph deconstructs the most relevant approaches to modal categories and shows how the traditional concept of modality is a problematic notion, how it relates to other concepts such as evidentiality and mitigation, and how it ought to be conceived of in order to become a more useful instrument for linguistic analysis. A new way of understanding modality is explored and illustrated through Galician examples. The second half of the book zooms in on six epistemic adverbs, which are exhaustively studied from both a formal and a functional perspective. Combining a quantitative and a qualitative perspective, the book shows that adverbs make up a rich semantic scale and establishes several factors that condition their occurrence in discourse, challenging previous conceptions of this grammatical domain.

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 40] 2024. xvii, 234 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 23 March 2024

https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.40

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments | pp. ix–x

Abbreviations | pp. xi–xii

List of figures | pp. xiii–xiv

List of tables | pp. xv–xvi

Table of listings | pp. xvii–xviii

Part I. Preliminaries

Chapter 1. Introduction | pp. 2–10

Part II. Theoretical background

Chapter 2. The concept of modality | pp. 12–43

Chapter 3. Functionalist approaches to modality | pp. 44–58

Chapter 4. Modality and neighboring categories | pp. 59–84

Chapter 5. Modality revisited: The Galician system | pp. 85–99

Part III. A focus on epistemic adverbs

Chapter 6. Corpus and method | pp. 102–120

Chapter 7. Epistemic adverbs: Syntagmatic and paradigmatic properties | pp. 121–145

Chapter 8. Epistemic adverbs: A pragmatic approach | pp. 146–191

Part IV. Conclusion

Chapter 9. General summary and discussion | pp. 194–200

Bibliography | pp. 201–215

Appendixes

Appendix A. Appendix of tables | pp. 218–223

Appendix B. Appendix of listings (R output) | pp. 224–232

Index | pp. 233–234

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Míguez, Vítor

2024. Mood Alternation with Adverbs of Uncertainty in Galician: A Multifactorial Analysis. Languages 9:6 ► pp. 195 ff.

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