Raphael Salkie
List of John Benjamins publications for which Raphael Salkie plays a role.
2014 Enablement and possibility Modes of Modality: Modality, typology, and universal grammar, Leiss, Elisabeth and Werner Abraham (eds.), pp. 319–352 | Article
We need a better explanation of the differences in meaning and use between can and may. This paper proposes that the underlying semantics of all uses of can is enablement, in a precise sense derived from the philosophy of action, while may expresses metalinguistic possibility, linking a proposition… read more
2008 Modals and typology: English and German in contrast Current Trends in Contrastive Linguistics: Functional and cognitive perspectives, Gómez González, María de los Ángeles, J. Lachlan Mackenzie and Elsa M. González Álvarez (eds.), pp. 77–98 | Article
One approach to contrastive linguistics is to set up typological categories and then to compare languages in relation to these categories. After a critical analysis of prototype theory we introduce the notion ‘typological cluster’, and apply this notion to modality. We propose a set of criteria… read more
2007 Connectives, modals and prototypes: A study of rather Connectives as Discourse Landmarks, Celle, Agnès and Ruth Huart (eds.), pp. 15–30 | Article
2002 Two types of translation equivalence Lexis in Contrast: Corpus-based approaches, Altenberg, Bengt and Sylviane Granger (eds.), pp. 51–71 | Chapter
1999 Contrast and Concession in French and English Information Structure in Parallel Texts, Hasselgård, Hilde, Stig Johansson and Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen (eds.), pp. 27–56 | Article
The discourse markers but and although are similar but not identical in meaning. We investigate the relationship between them using data from the INTERSECT translation corpus. A collection of cases are examined where although corresponds to French mais. In order to explain the correspondences we… read more
1998 Conference Report Languages in Contrast 1:2, pp. 265–268 | Miscellaneous
1998 Editorial Languages in Contrast 1:1, pp. v–xii | Miscellaneous