Modality Across Syntactic Categories
Series: Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics; 63;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 16 February 2017
- ISBN 9780198718208
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages364 pages
- Size 247x177x27 mm
- Weight 658 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This volume explores the linguistic expression of modality in natural language from a cross-linguistic perspective, and demonstrates that modality involves many more syntactic categories and levels of syntactic structure than traditionally assumed.
MoreLong description:
This volume explores the linguistic expression of modality in natural language from a cross-linguistic perspective. Modal expressions provide the basic tools that allow us to dissociate what we say from what is actually going on, allowing us to talk about what might happen or might have happened, as well as what is required, desirable, or permitted.
Chapters in the book demonstrate that modality involves many more syntactic categories and levels of syntactic structure than traditionally assumed. The volume distinguishes between three types of modality: 'low modality', which concerns modal interpretations associated with the verbal and nominal cartographies in syntax; 'middle modality', or modal interpretation associated to the syntactic cartography internal to the clause; and 'high modality', relating to the left periphery. It combines cross-linguistic discussions of the more widely-studied sources of modality with analyses of novel or unexpected sources, and shows how the meanings associated with the three types of modality are realized across a wide range of languages.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part I: Low Modality
Epistemic indefinites: On the content and distribution of the epistemic component
Modal indefinites: Where do Japanese wh-kas fit in?
The non-modality of opinion verbs
Modality in the nominal domain: The case of adnominal conditionals
Sublexical modality in defeasible causative verbs
Straddling the line between attitude verbs and necessity modals
May under verbs of hoping: The evolution of the modal system in the complements of hoping verbs in Early Modern English
Part II: Middle Modality
In an imperfect world: Deriving the typology of counterfactual marking
Dimensions of variation in Old English modals
Part III: High Modality
Aspect and tense in evidentials
Past possibility cross-linguistically: Evidence from 12 languages
A modest proposal for the meaning of imperatives
