Modality in Grammar and Discourse: 32 (Typological Studies in Language) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027229252 ISBN 13: 9789027229250

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1995

Synopsis

This volume brings together a collection of 18 papers that look into the expression of modality in the grammars of natural languages, with an emphasis on its manifestations in naturally occurring discourse. Though the individual contributions reflect a diversity of languages, of synchronic and diachronic foci, and of theoretical orientations — all within the broad domain of functional linguistics — they nonetheless converge around a number of key issues: the relationship between 'mood' and 'modality'; the delineation of modal categories and their nomenclature; the grounding of modality in interactive discourse; the elusive category 'irrealis'; and the relationship of modal notions and categories to other categories of grammar.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 9027229252
• ISBN 13: 9789027229250
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 583
• Editor: Bybee Joan L., Fleischman Suzanne