31.3552, Books: Modality in Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics: Abraham

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Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2020 23:00:54
From: Rachel Tonkin [rtonkin at cambridge.org]
Subject: Modality in Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics: Abraham

 


Title: Modality in Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics 
Series Title: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/grammar-and-syntax/modality-syntax-semantics-and-pragmatics?localeText=United+States&locale=en_US&query=&remember_me=on 


Author: Werner Abraham

Hardback: ISBN:  9781107021228 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 110.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781107021228 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 85.00


Abstract:

What do we mean when we say things like 'If only we knew what he was up to!'
Clearly this is more than just a message, or a question to our addressee. We
are expressing simultaneously that we don't know, and also that we wish to
know. Several modes of encoding contribute to such modalities of expression:
word order, subordinating subjunctions, sentences that are subordinated but
nevertheless occur autonomously, and attitudinal discourse adverbs which, far
beyond lexical adverbials of modality, allow the speaker and the listener to
presuppose full agreement, partial agreement under presupposed conditions, or
negotiation of common ground. This state of the art survey proposes a new
model of modality, drawing on data from a variety of Germanic and Slavic
languages to find out what is cross-linguistically universal about modality,
and to argue that it is a constitutive part of human cognition.

Part I. Modes of Modality: Introduction
1. Pragmatics: modality and speaker orientation
2. (Inter) subjectification and foreign consciousness alignment
3. Modality as distance – from aspect to modality
Part II. Verbal Modality:
4. The syntax-semantic-pragmatic interface of modal verbs
5. The perspectival specifics of verb modality in German
6. The syntax of modal verbs in German, Dutch, and English
7. Modal verb semantics
Part III. Adverbial Modality Distance: From Apect to Mpp:
8. Modal particles: the enigmatic category
9. The attitudinal force of modal particles
10. Modal particles between context, conversation, and convention
11. Modal particles outside of finiteness
Part IV. Covert Modality:
12. Covert patterns of modality.
 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Pragmatics
                     Semantics
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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