Chapter 5. Modality revisited

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Abbreviations xi
5. List of figures xiii
6. List of tables xv
7. Table of listings xvii
8. Part I. Preliminaries
9. Chapter 1. Introduction 2
10. Part II. Theoretical background
11. Chapter 2. The concept of modality 12
12. Chapter 3. Functionalist approaches to modality 44
13. Chapter 4. Modality and neighboring categories 59
14. Chapter 5. Modality revisited 85
15. Part III. A focus on epistemic adverbs
16. Chapter 6. Corpus and method 102
17. Chapter 7. Epistemic adverbs 121
18. Chapter 8. Epistemic adverbs 146
19. Part IV. Conclusion
20. Chapter 9. General summary and discussion 194
21. Bibliography 201
22. Appendixes
23. Appendix A. Appendix of tables 218
24. Appendix B. Appendix of listings (R output) 224
25. Index 233