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The Expression of Modality

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Published/Copyright: 2006
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The Expression of Cognitive Categories [ECC]

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This book covers the essentials of modality and offers both foundational ideas and cutting edge advances. The book consists of what are essentially tutorials on modality and modal notions, covering definitions of modality, morphosyntactic form, conceptual and logical semantics, historical development, and acquisition. There are also specific chapters on modality in Zapotec and American Sign Language, which show the range of forms that modal notions can take. To assist its tutorial function, the book closes with a comprehensive conceptual outline of all the chapters.

Key features:

  • new series
  • textbook
  • covers the essentials of modality

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William Frawley, University of Delaware, USA.

Reviews

"This attribute of EM, together with the quality of all the contributions, make the book a must for beginning researchers on modality, and highly recommendable for more experienced lecturers and researchers concerned with this aera."
Marta Carretero in: Functions of Language 1/2008

"Der Herausgeber dieses Bandes hat in der neu konzipierten Reihe über den Ausdruck kognitiver Kategorien die Messlatte recht hoch gelegt."
Ralf Klabunde in: Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 26/2007

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    Modality: Overview and linguistic issues

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    Jan Nuyts
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    Typological approaches to modality

    27
    Ferdinand de Haan
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    Formal approaches to modality

    71
    Stefan Kaufmann, Cleo Condoravdi and Valentina Harizanov
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    Historical aspects of modality

    107
    Elizabeth Traugott
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    Acquisition of modality

    141
    Soonja Choi
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    Modal expression in Valley Zapotec

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    Pamela Munro
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    Modality in American Sign Language

    207
    Sherman Wilcox and Barbara Shaffer
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    Topical outline

    239
    Erin Eschenroeder, Sarah Mills and Thao Nguyen
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    Backmatter

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eBook published on:
August 22, 2008
eBook ISBN:
9783110197570
Hardcover published on:
February 21, 2006
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110184358
Paperback published on:
August 30, 2006
Paperback ISBN:
9783110184365
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Front matter:
7
Main content:
268
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110197570
eBook ISBN: 9783110197570
Hardcover ISBN: 9783110184358
Paperback ISBN: 9783110184365
Keywords for this book
Cognitive linguistics; modality (linguistics)
Audience(s) for this book
Research Libraries, Teachers and Students of Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Psychology, Biology.
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