Modality in Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics

Werner Abraham

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Werner Abraham, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: February 2021
Print publication year:: 2020
Online ISBN:: 9781139108676
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139108676

Subjects:: Grammar and Syntax, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Language and Linguistics, Semantics and Pragmatics
Series:: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics (165)

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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.

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Modality in Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics
pp i-i

Cambridge Studies in Linguistics - Series page
pp ii-iv

Modality in Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics - Title page
pp v-v

Copyright page
pp vi-vi

Dedication
pp vii-viii

Contents
pp ix-xvi

Tables
pp xvii-xx

Preface
pp xxi-xxiii

Acknowledgments
pp xxiv-xxiv

Abbreviations and Special Symbols
pp xxv-xxx

Introduction
pp 1-10

I - Modes of Modality
pp 11-104

1 - Pragmatics: Modality and Speaker Orientation
pp 13-59

2 - (Inter)Subjectification and Foreign Consciousness Alignment
pp 60-71

3 - Modality as Distance: From Aspect to Modality
pp 72-104

II - Verbal Modality
pp 105-210

4 - The Syntax–Semantic–Pragmatic Interface of Modal Verbs
pp 107-131

5 - The Perspectival Specifics of Verb Modality in German
pp 132-156

6 - The Syntax of Modal Verbs in German, Dutch, and English
pp 157-187

7 - Modal Verb Semantics
pp 188-210

III - Adverbial Modality
pp 211-330

8 - Modal Particles: The Enigmatic Category
pp 213-237

9 - The Attitudinal Force of Modal Particles
pp 238-289

10 - Modal Particles between Context, Conversation, and Convention
pp 290-310

11 - Modal Particles outside of Finiteness
pp 311-330

IV - Covert Modality
pp 331-380

12 - Covert Patterns of Modality
pp 333-380

Bibliography
pp 381-415

Index
pp 416-424

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