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Revisiting Modality A corpus-based study of epistemic adverbs in Galician Vítor Míguez
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Míguez, Vítor, author.
- Series:
- Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 2213-3887 40
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Functional linguistics.
- Pragmatics.
- Romance linguistics.
- Semantics.
- Syntax.
- Theoretical linguistics.
- Local Subjects:
- Functional linguistics.
- Pragmatics.
- Romance linguistics.
- Semantics.
- Syntax.
- Theoretical linguistics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 234 pages )
- 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. The first half of the monograph deconstructs the most relevant approaches to modal categories and shows how the traditional concept of modality is a problematic notion, how it relates to other concepts such as evidentiality and mitigation, and how it ought to be conceived of in order to become a more useful instrument for linguistic analysis. A new way of understanding modality is explored and illustrated through Galician examples. The second half of the book zooms in on six epistemic adverbs, which are exhaustively studied from both a formal and a functional perspective. Combining a quantitative and a qualitative perspective, the book shows that adverbs make up a rich semantic scale and establishes several factors that condition their occurrence in discourse, challenging previous conceptions of this grammatical domain. Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. The concept of modality
- Chapter 3. Functionalist approaches to modality
- Chapter 4. Modality and neighboring categories
- Chapter 5. Modality revisited
- Chapter 6. Corpus and method
- Chapter 7. Epistemic adverbs
- Chapter 8. Epistemic adverbs
- Chapter 9. General summary and discussion
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Hardbound version:
- ISBN:
- 9789027246981
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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