Modes of modality modality, typology, and universal grammar / edited by Elisabeth Leiss, University of Munich ; Werner Abraham, University of Vienna.
| Other author | Leiss, Elisabeth. |
| Other author | Abraham, Werner. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014. |
| Description | vi, 511 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Studies in language companion series, 0165-7763 ; volume 149 |
| Contents | Formal properties of modality -- Interpreting modals by phase heads / Daigo Akiba -- Evidentiality straddling T- and C-domains / Nadia Varley -- Typological surveys -- The syntax of modal polyfunctionality revisited : evidence from the languages of Europe / Björn Hansen --t Mora da as a marker of modal meanings in Macedonian : on correlations between categorial restrictions and morphosyntactic behaviour / Björn Wiemer -- Modal semantics and morphosyntax of the Latvian debitive / Ilze Lokmane & Andra Kalnača -- Deontic or epistemic? habëre as a modal marker of future certainty in Macedonian /r Liljana Mitkovska & Eleni Buézarovska -- Epistemic, evidential and attitudinal markers in clause-medial position in Cantonese / Foong Ha Yap & Winnie Oi-Wan Chor -- Interfaces between mood and modality -- Modal particles in rationale clauses and related constructions / Patrick Grosz -- Modal particles in causal clauses : the case of German weil wohl / Mathias Schenner & Frank Sode -- Modality conceptualizations -- Enablement and possibility / Raphael Salkie -- The modal category of sufficiency / Chantal Melis -- Diachronie derivation -- From agent-oriented modality to sequential : the polysemy of the marker ni in Kakabe (Mande) / Alexandra Vydrina -- Covert modality -- A rare case of covert modality : Spoken Polish and the novel periphrastic past with mieć 'have' / Werner Abraham & Jadwiga Piskorz -- (C)Overt epistemic modality and its perspectival effects on the textual surface / Sonja Zeman -- Dimensions of implicit modality in Igbo / Chinedu Uchechukwu -- Index. |
| 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 | 2013041819 |
| ISBN | 9789027206169 (hb : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9027206163 (hb : alk. paper) |