Revisiting modality : a corpus-based study of epistemic adverbs in Galician.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Míguez, Vítor.

Series:

Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics Series

Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics Series ; v.40

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linguistics--Galician.

Linguistics.

Knowledge, Theory of--Galician.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 pages) : color illustrations.

Edition:

1st edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2024.

Summary:

This book presents the first in-depth investigation of modality in Galician linguistics, offering a theoretical discussion of modal categories and a fine-grained description of epistemic adverbs.

Contents:

Intro

Table of contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

List of figures

List of tables

Table of listings

Part I Preliminaries

Chapter 1 Introduction

1.1 Scope and main goals

1.2 Outline of the book

1.3 From modus to modality

1.4 Modality in Galician linguistics

Part II Theoretical background

Chapter 2 The concept of modality

2.1 Modal taxonomies

2.1.1 The traditional classes of modality

2.1.2 Other proposals for the organization of modality

2.1.2.1 Dynamic and deontic modality beyond the traditional view

2.1.2.2 Alternative divisions of modal space

2.1.2.3 Boulomaic modality

2.1.3 Galician approaches to modality and the modals

2.2 Theories of modality

2.2.1 Possible worlds semantics

2.2.2 The factuality approach

2.2.3 Modality as force dynamics

2.3 The typological perspective on modality

2.4 Critical summary

Chapter 3 Functionalist approaches to modality

3.1 Functional grammar models

3.1.1 Functional Grammar

3.1.2 Role and Reference Grammar

3.1.3 Functional Procedural Grammar and the paradigmatic approach

3.2 Systemic Functional Grammar

3.3 Discourse-functional and interactional approaches6

Chapter 4 Modality and neighboring categories

4.1 Modality and TAME

4.1.1 Tense

4.1.2 Aspect

4.1.3 Mood

4.1.4 Evidentiality

4.2 Modality and discourse strategy

4.2.1 Mitigation

4.2.2 Concession

4.2.3 Strengthening

4.3 Modality and (inter)subjectivity

Chapter 5 Modality revisited

5.1 A revision of modality and modal categories

5.2 The expression of modal categories in Galician

Part III A focus on epistemic adverbs

Chapter 6 Corpus and method

6.1 Epistemic modality as expressed by adverbs

6.2 Galician epistemic adverbs

6.2.1 Certamente and seguramente

6.2.2 Probablemente and posiblemente.

6.2.3 Quizais and se cadra

6.3 Corpus design

6.4 Variables

6.4.1 The adverbial phrase

6.4.2 The verb phrase

6.4.3 The clause

6.4.4 Beyond the clause

6.4.5 The extra-linguistic context

6.4.6 Summary of variables

6.5 Statistical approach

Chapter 7 Epistemic adverbs

7.1 Variables and hypotheses

7.2 Univariate and bivariate results

7.2.1 A general picture

7.2.2 Adverb modifiers

7.2.3 A note on mood

7.3 Multivariate results

7.3.1 The pairwise approach

7.3.2 The one vs. rest approach

7.4 Summary and discussion

7.4.1 How epistemic adverbs are alike

7.4.2 How epistemic adverbs differ from one another

Chapter 8 Epistemic adverbs

8.1 Variables and hypotheses

8.2 Pragmatic analysis1

8.2.1 Modal uses

8.2.2 Discourse-oriented uses

8.2.2.1 Mitigation

8.2.2.2 Strengthening

8.2.2.3 Tendency

8.2.3 Other uses

8.2.4 Results

8.3 Adverb meaning and co-occurrence with (near-)epistemic expressions

8.4 Adverb meaning and position

8.5 Adverb meaning and orality

8.6 Summary and discussion

8.6.1 Main findings

8.6.2 Diachronic implications

Part IV Conclusion

Chapter 9 General summary and discussion

9.1 Theoretical findings and implications

9.2 Empirical findings and implications

9.3 Future lines of research

Bibliography

Appendixes

Appendix A

Appendix B

Index.

Notes:

Title from online title page (viewed on April 9, 2024).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9789027246981

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