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9783110184358

The Expression of Modality

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    9783110184358

  • ISBN10:

    3110184354

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2005-12-30
  • Publisher: Mouton De Gruyter

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This book covers the essentials of modality and offers both foundational ideas and cutting edge advances. The book consists of what are essentially tutorials on modality and modal notions, covering definitions of modality, morphosyntactic form, conceptual and logical semantics, historical development, and acquisition. There are also specific chapters on modality in Zapotec and American Sign Language, which show the range of forms that modal notions can take. To assist its tutorial function, the book closes with a comprehensive conceptual outline of all the chapters. Key features: new series textbook covers the essentials of modality

Table of Contents

Preface v
Modality: Overview and linguistic issues
1(26)
Jan Nuyts
Typological approaches to modality
27(44)
Ferdinand de Haan
Formal approaches to modality
71(36)
Stefan Kaufmann
Cleo Condoravdi
Valentina Harizanov
Historical aspects of modality
107(34)
Elizabeth Traugott
Acquisition of modality
141(32)
Soonja Choi
Modal expression in Valley Zapotec
173(34)
Pamela Munro
Modality in American Sign Language
207(32)
Sherman Wilcox
Barbara Shaffer
Topical outline
239(24)
Erin Eschenroeder
Sarah Mills
Thao Nguyen
Index 263(4)
List of contributors 267

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