Modality
Subtitle: Issues in the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface (Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface)
Edition: 1st ed edition
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Published: September 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780080436340
Subjects: Pragmatics; Science/Mathematics; Linguistics; Science; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; System Theory; General; Grammar; Language Arts & Disciplines / Grammar; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines-Linguistics; Technology-General; Modality (Linguistics)
First sentence: A well-known property of lexical items in natural language is that they are capable of conveying different meanings in different situations of utterance.