Modality in English :: theory and description /

This volume presents two kinds of studies on English modality. On the one hand, there are strongly empirical, corpus-based studies of individual uses of English modal auxiliaries and modal constructions, such as may in interrogatives, might in concessive clauses, shall and may vs must in legal Engli...

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Weitere Verfasser: Salkie, Raphael, Busuttil, Pierre, Auwera, Johan van der
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berlin ; New York : M. de Gruyter, ©2009.
Schriftenreihe:Topics in English linguistics ; 58.
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Zusammenfassung:This volume presents two kinds of studies on English modality. On the one hand, there are strongly empirical, corpus-based studies of individual uses of English modal auxiliaries and modal constructions, such as may in interrogatives, might in concessive clauses, shall and may vs must in legal English, the use of surprised if and surprising if constructions, the use and history of adhortative constructions, or the modal-aspectual use of come to in I came to realize that X. The book also contains work that presents new views on some of the classical issues, like the relations between modality an.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (vi, 384 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9783110213331
3110213338
1282296515
9781282296510
9786612296512
6612296518
ISSN:1434-3452 ;

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