31.2263, Books: Modal auxiliaries and aspect in contemporary American English: Szymański

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Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2020 18:54:55
From: Leszek Szymański [l.szymanski at in.uz.zgora.pl]
Subject: Modal auxiliaries and aspect in contemporary American English: Szymański

 


Title: Modal auxiliaries and aspect in contemporary American English 
Subtitle: A corpus-based study 
Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Leszek Szymański
	   
	

Book URL: http://www.ow.uz.zgora.pl/produkt/modal-auxiliaries-and-aspect-in-contemporary-american-english/ 


Author: Leszek Szymański

Paperback: ISBN: 9788378423  Pages: 211 Price: ----  


Abstract:

Our world is built of facts, that is of real events which have taken place.
They constitute our world, the reality that surrounds us. Moreover, we have
the ability to think about unreal worlds, which have not taken place. Thus, we
make modifications to facts, and we also make changes to these modifications
(Perzanowski, 2006). We tend to modify facts located in the situation we are
in or the one we refer to, as well as placed in the circumstances we think
about. We can express these modifications thanks to displacement, a feature of
language which allows us "to talk about things beyond the here and now"
(Hacquard, 2006: 10). We do this with the use of tense, which allows us to
express the location of a situation on the time axis, aspect, which pertains
to the duration of situations, and modality, thanks to which we can express
situations which have not taken place ( Hacquard, 2006). This book examines
the interrelation between the last two: modality and aspect. Modal verbs are
considered ambiguous. They receive their particular modal flavors in contexts
(Hacquard, 2006, 2010, 2011; Kratzer, 1991, 2012).
 



Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Pragmatics
                     Semantics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Written In: English  (eng)

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