Modality in Grammar and Discourse
Editors
| University of New Mexico
| University of California, Berkeley
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
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Introduction
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I. Agent-Oriented and Epistemic Modality
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107
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135
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II. The Interactional Basis of Modality
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163
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165
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205
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239
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293
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329
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III. Irrealis Modality and Subjunctive
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347
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349
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367
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389
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429
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IV. Modality and Other Categories of Grammar
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451
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453
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473
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503
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519
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Subject index
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553
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Language index
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565
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Author index
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