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1 online resource (459 pages) : illustrations. |
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Topics in English linguistics, 1434-3452 ; volume 81 |
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Topics in English linguistics ; 81.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Modals : striving for control / Ronald Langacker -- Contemporary change in modal usage in spoken British English : mapping the impact of "genre" / Jill Bowie, Sean Wallis and Bas Aarts -- Where have all the modals gone? : an essay on the declining frequency of core modal auxiliaries in recent standard English / Geoffrey Leech -- Had better, 'd better and better : diachronic and transatlantic variation / Johan van der Auwera, Dirk Noel and An van Linden -- Grammatical colloquialism and the English quasi-modals : a comparative study / Peter Collins -- Modal necessity and impersonality in English and Galician / Lucia Loureiro-Porto -- Modal uses of the English present progressive / Frank Brisard and Astrid De Wit -- On the generic argument for the modality of will / Debra Ziegeler -- Reality and related concepts : towards a semantic-pragmatic map of English adverbs / Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen -- A cross-linguistic look at the multifunctionality of the English verb seem / Aurelija Usoniene and Jolanta Sinkuniene -- Annotating English adverbials for the categories of epistemic modality and evidentiality / Marta Carretero and Juan Rafael Zamorano-Mansilla -- Modal verbs in news-related blogs : when the blogger counts / Roberta Facchinetti -- Modality and personal pronouns as indexical markers of stance : intersubjective positioning and construction of public identity in media interviews / Laura Hidalgo Downing and Begonia Nunez Perucha -- Stancetaking and inter/subjectivity in the Iraq inquiry : Blair vs. Brown / Juana I. Marin-Arrese. |
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Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
English language -- Modality.
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Modality (Linguistics)
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Evidentials (Linguistics)
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Marin-Arrese, Juana.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: English modality : core, periphery and evidentiality. Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, [2013] Topics in English linguistics ; volume 81 9783110286212 (DLC)17968464 |
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9783110286212 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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9783110286328 (electronic bk.) |
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