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 InfoAmsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014.
Descriptionvi, 511 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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SeriesStudies 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.
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