Modality in Grammar and Discourse
Language: en
Pages: 585
Authors: Joan L. Bybee
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995-01-01 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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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 ma
Modality in English
Language: en
Pages: 391
Authors: Raphael Salkie
Categories: Foreign Language Study
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

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Main description: This volume presents strongly empirical, corpus-based studies of a range of English modal auxiliaries and modal constructions in specific uses
Corpus Linguistics and Sociolinguistics
Language: en
Pages: 437
Authors: Beke Hansen
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-12-24 - Publisher: BRILL

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In Corpus Linguistics and Sociolinguistics, Beke Hansen analyses variation and change in the modal systems of three second-language varieties of English in Asia
Modes of Modality
Language: en
Pages: 519
Authors: Elisabeth Leiss
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-01-15 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

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The volume aims at a universal definition of modality or “illocutionary/speaker’s perspective force” that is strong enough to capture the entire range of
Modality and the English Modals
Language: en
Pages: 229
Authors: F.R. Palmer
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-02-04 - Publisher: Routledge

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A detailed account of the many uses and functions of these verbs. The nature of modality, and some controversial issues, are also discussed.