25.579, Books: Modes of Modality: Leiss, Abraham (Eds)

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From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Modes of Modality: Leiss, Abraham (Eds)

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Title: Modes of Modality 
Subtitle: Modality, typology, and universal grammar 
Series Title: Studies in Language Companion Series 149  

Publication Year: 2014 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/slcs.149 

Editor: Elisabeth Leiss
Editor: Werner Abraham

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Abstract:

The volume aims at a universal definition of modality or
“illocutionary/speaker’s perspective force” that is strong enough to capture
the entire range of different subtypes and varieties of modalities in
different languages. The central idea is that modality is all-pervasive in
language. This perspective on modality allows for the integration of covert
modality as well as peripheral instances of modality in neglected domains such
as the modality of insufficieny, of attitudinality, or neglected domains such
as modality and illocutionary force in finite vs. nonfinite and factive vs.
non-factive subordinated clauses. In most languages, modality encompasses
modal verbs both in their root and epistemic meanings, at least where these
languages have the principled distribution between root and epistemic modality
in the first place (which is one fundamentally restricted, in its strict
qualitative and quantitative sense, to the Germanic languages). In addition,
this volume discusses one other intricate and partially highly mysterious
class of modality triggers: modal particles as they are sported in the
Germanic languages (except for English). It is argued in the contributions and
the languages discussed in this volume how modal verbs and adverbials, next to
modal particles, are expressed, how they are interlinked with contextual
factors such as aspect, definiteness, person, verbal factivity, and
assertivity as opposed to other attitudinal types. An essential concept used
and argued for is perspectivization (a sub-concept of possible world
semantics). Language groups covered in detail and compared are Slavic,
Germanic, and South East Asian. The volume will interest researchers in
theoretical and applied linguistics, typology, the semantics/pragmatics
interface, and language philosophy as it is part of a larger project
developing an alternative approach to Universal Grammar that is compatible
with functionalist approaches.

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Pragmatics
                     Semantics
                     Syntax
                     Typology

Language Family(ies): Germanic
                      Slavic Subgroup 

Written In: English  (eng)

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