Modality in Grammar and Discourse
Editors
This volume brings together a collection of 18 papers that look into the expression of modality in the grammars of natural languages, with an emphasis on its manifestations in naturally occurring discourse. Though the individual contributions reflect a diversity of languages, of synchronic and diachronic foci, and of theoretical orientations all within the broad domain of functional linguistics they nonetheless converge around a number of key issues: the relationship between 'mood' and 'modality'; the delineation of modal categories and their nomenclature; the grounding of modality in interactive discourse; the elusive category 'irrealis'; and the relationship of modal notions and categories to other categories of grammar.
[Typological Studies in Language, 32] 1995. viii, 575 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 12 April 2011
Published online on 12 April 2011
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Introduction | p. 1
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I. Agent-Oriented and Epistemic Modality
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Agent-Oriented vs. Epistemic Modality: Some Observations on German ModalsBernd Heine | p. 17
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The Expression of Root and Epistemic Possibility in EnglishJennifer Coates | p. 55
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Contextuel Conditions for the Interpretation of poder and deber in SpanishCarmen Silva-Corvalán | p. 67
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The Obligation Modality in Western Nilotic LanguagesEdith L. Bavin | p. 107
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The Gestural Expression of Modality in ASLSherman Wilcox and Phyllis Perrin Wilcox | p. 135
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II. The Interactional Basis of Modality
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The Development of Epistemic Sentence-ending Modal Forms and Functions in Korean ChildrenSoonja Choi | p. 165
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The Interactional Basis of the Mandarin Modal néng ‘can’Jiansheng Guo | p. 205
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The Discourse and Interactive Functions of Obligation ExpressionsJohn Myhill and Laura A. Smith | p. 239
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Apprehensional EpistemicsFrank Lichtenberk | p. 293
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Moods and MetaMessages: Alienation as a MoodJohn Haiman | p. 329
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III. Irrealis Modality and Subjunctive
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The Realis-Irrealis Distinction in Caddo, the Northern Iroquoian Languages, and EnglishWallace Chafe | p. 349
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On the Relativity of IrrealityMarianne Mithun | p. 367
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The Grammaticalization of Irrealis in Tik PisinSuzanne Romaine | p. 389
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The Evaluative Function of the Spanish SubjunctivePatricia V. Lunn | p. 429
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IV. Modality and Other Categories of Grammar
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Negation and the Modals of Possibility and NecessityFrank Robert Palmer | p. 453
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A Functional Theory of ComplementizersZygmunt Frajzyngier | p. 473
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The Semantic Development of Past Tense Modals in EnglishJoan L. Bybee | p. 503
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Imperfective and IrrealisSuzanne Fleischman | p. 519
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Subject index | p. 553
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Language index | p. 565
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Author index | p. 569
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