Modes of modality
Subtitle: modality, typology, and universal grammar
By: edited by Elisabeth Leiss, University of Munich ; Werner Abraham, University of Vienna
Series: Studies in language companion series -- volume 149
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 511
ISBN-13: 9789027206169; 9789027270795
Subjects: Modality (Linguistics); Comparative and general Grammar; Mood; Tense; Cognitive grammar; Typology (Linguistics); Linguistic universals
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Formal properties of modality; title: Interpreting modals by phase heads  -- Daigo Akiba; title: Evidentiality straddling T- and C-domains  -- Nadia Varley; title: Typological surveys --; title: 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; title: Modal semantics and morphosyntax of the Latvian debitive  -- Ilze Lokmane & Andra Kalnača; title: Deontic or epistemic? habëre as a modal marker of future certainty in Macedonian /r Liljana Mitkovska & Eleni Buézarovska --; title: Epistemic, evidential and attitudinal markers in clause-medial position in Cantonese  -- Foong Ha Yap & Winnie Oi-Wan Chor; title: Interfaces between mood and modality --; title: Modal particles in rationale clauses and related constructions  -- Patrick Grosz; title: Modal particles in causal clauses : the case of German weil wohl  -- Mathias Schenner & Frank Sode; title: Modality conceptualizations --; title: Enablement and possibility  -- Raphael Salkie; title: The modal category of sufficiency  -- Chantal Melis; title: Diachronie derivation --; title: From agent-oriented modality to sequential : the polysemy of the marker ni in Kakabe (Mande)  -- Alexandra Vydrina; title: Covert modality --; title: A rare case of covert modality : Spoken Polish and the novel periphrastic past with mieć 'have'  -- Werner Abraham & Jadwiga Piskorz; title: (C)Overt epistemic modality and its perspectival effects on the textual surface  -- Sonja Zeman; title: Dimensions of implicit modality in Igbo -- Chinedu Uchechukwu-- Index.