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Date: 09-Oct-2023
From: Ellena Moriarty [ellena.moriarty at cambridge.org]
Subject: Modality in Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics: Abraham (2023) 


Title: Modality in Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics
Series Title: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
Publication Year: 2023
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
                http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
Book URL: https://cambridge.org/9781107605503

author: Werner Abraham
Hardback: ISBN:  9781107021228 Price: U.S. $ 113.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781107021228 Price: U.K. £ 89.99
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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.

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Written In: English (eng)

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