Studies on English modality
Subtitle: in honour of Frank Palmer
By: Anastasios Tsangalidis & Roberta Facchinetti (eds).
Contributors: Tsangalidēs, Anastasios.; Facchinetti, Roberta, 1967-; Palmer, F.R.
Series: Linguistic insights -- v. 111; Linguistic insights -- v. 111.
Publisher: Peter Lang; Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften; Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Bern, Switzerland; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9783034303101
Subjects: English language -- Modality
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Dedication; title: Frank Palmer's publications; title: Preface / Anastasios Tsangalidis, Roberta Facchinetti; title: Section I. The semantics-pragmatics interface: Effective vs. epistemic stance, and subjectivity/intersubjectivity in political discourse: a case study / Juana I. Marín-Arrese; title: Subjectivity, (Non-)subjectivity and intersubjectivity in English modality / Roberta Facchinetti; title: On controllability as a contextual variable / Anna Wärnsby; title: Modality in discourse: the pragmatics of epistemic modality / Leo Francis Hoye; title: The use of modal verbs in interpersonal contexts: from semantics to pragmatics / Marta Degani, Elisabetta Adami, Anna Belladelli; title: Section II. The syntax-semantics interface: Para/for-infinitives in Brazilian Portuguese and English: similarities and contrasts in the grammatical encoding of modality / Heloisa Maria Moreira Lima-Salles; title: What's so unreal about the past? Past tense and counterfactuals / Lotte Hogeweg; title: Modality of English conditional sentences: the evidence from Ancient Greek / Jo Willmott; title: The expression of deduction referring to past time within the verbal group: an English-Spanish contrastive analysis / Juan Rafael Zamorano-Mansilla, Marta Carretero; title: Section III. Focus on modal verbs: On the status of 'epistemic' must / Ferdinand de Haan; title: Some observations on (factual) could + perfect infinitive / Ilse Depraetere; title: Modal verbs in modern Greek and English: what's conceptualization got to do with typology? / Evangelia Manika; title: On the role of context in interpreting want as a volitional or deontic verb / Philippe Bourdin; title: Movement futures in English and Dutch. A contrastive analysis of be going to and gaan / Daniël Van Olmen, Tanja Mortelmans; title: Notes on contributors.