English modality core, periphery and evidentiality / edited by Juana I. Marín-Arrese, Marta Carretero, Jorge Arús Hita, Johan van der Auwera.
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2013] |
| Description | 449 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Marín Arrese, Juana I. |
| Other author/creator | Carretero, Marta. |
| Other author/creator | Arús Hita, Jorge, 1967- |
| Other author/creator | Auwera, Johan van der. |
| Series | Topics in English linguistics, 1434-3452 ; volume 81 Topics in English linguistics ; 81. ^A529142 |
| 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 Noël and An van Linden -- Grammatical colloquialism and the English quasi-modals : a comparative study / Peter Collins -- Modal necessity and impersonality in English and Galician / Lucía 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 Usonienė and Jolanta Šinkūnienė -- 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 Begoña Núñez Perucha -- Stancetaking and inter/subjectivity in the Iraq inquiry : Blair vs. Brown / Juana I. Marín-Arrese. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2013044731 |
| ISBN | 9783110286212 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 3110286211 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9783110286328 (e-book) |