16.3260, Books: Semantics/Typology, Italian: Pietrandrea

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Date: 27-Oct-2005
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: Epistemic Modality: Pietrandrea 

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Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 13:07:18
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: Epistemic Modality: Pietrandrea 

Title: Epistemic Modality 
Subtitle: Functional properties and the Italian system 
Series Title: Studies in Language Companion Series 74  

Publication Year: 2005 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=SLCS%2074 

Author: Paola Pietrandrea, University Rome Three

Hardback: ISBN: 9027230846 Pages: xii, 232 Price: U.S. $ 126.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9027230846 Pages: xii, 232 Price: Europe EURO 105.00

Abstract:

This volume offers an original theoretical and methodological approach to
the hotly debated issue of epistemic modality. The analysis is conducted in
a rigorous typological frame developed after a careful consideration of a
wealth of cross-linguistic data, and focuses on Italian, a language often
disregarded in comparative analyses. The complexity of the Italian
epistemic system provides relevant information that will undoubtedly foster
a better understanding of the topic. A new definition of epistemic modality
is proposed on a functional basis and the structure of the Italian
epistemic system is closely described. The morpho-syntactic characteristics
of Italian epistemic forms are regarded as the result of the dialectic
between universal functional pressures and peculiar system resistances.
Shaped by the system, epistemic modality emerges as an intrinsically
linguistic category, which cannot be downsized to a mere conceptual notion,
as other approaches would propose. 

Table of contents

Abbreviations  xi-xii  
Introduction  1-5  
The notional category of epistemic modality  6-39  
A typological classification of epistemic systems  40-52  
Epistemic modality in Italian  53-68  
Semantic oppositions  69-99  
A typological characterization of Italian epistemic modality  100-107  
Inflectional and distributional constraints.: The (low) performativity of
Italian epistemic modality  108-132  
Aspectual constraints on the propositional content  133-153  
The incompleteness of the propositional content and the
meta-propositionality of epistemic modality  154-186  
A diachronic hypothesis  187-206  
Conclusions  207-209  
Notes  210-216  
Bibliography  217-229  
Subject Index  230-232 

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): Italian (ita)

Written In: English  (eng)

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