The Semantics Of The Modal Auxiliaries

Author : Jennifer Coates
Publisher : Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics
ISBN 13 : 9781138989986
Total Pages : 272 pages
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Download or read book The Semantics of the Modal Auxiliaries written by Jennifer Coates and published by Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics. This book was released on 2015-12-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a report of an investigation into the meanings of the modal auxiliaries in modern British English. The investigation took the form of a large-scale corpus-based project, looking at modal auxiliaries in both written and spoken language, and taking into account stylistic variation. The analysis of a corpus of a ¿real¿ language brings the analyst face-to-face with a problem which has frequently been avoided or ignored in theoretical semantics: language is not an orderly phenomenon, and, as far as meaning is concerned, indeterminacy seems to be a feature of all languages. But it is one thing to recognise the existence of indeterminacy, and another to deal with it adequately. Semantic analysis conventionally consists in distinguishing one meaning from another, in recognising discrete categories, but the acknowledgement of indeterminacy explicitly denies the existence of such discrete categories. This book examines in detail this problem and its relationship to a study of modals.

Author : Jennifer Coates
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780709907350
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Semantics of the Modal Auxiliaries written by Jennifer Coates and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1983 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Manfred G. Krug
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110820986
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emerging English Modals written by Manfred G. Krug and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-04-20 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is essentially based on grammaticalization theory – a branch of linguistics which has gained prominence since the 1980s. It focuses on the interaction between diachrony and synchrony, langue and parole or, for that matter, competence and performance, I–language and Ε–language. It does not see these levels as distinct linguistic domains, as much structurally oriented work does. It is important for the present purposes that such an interactionist view entails that performance effects may over time cause new grammatical code relations. Hence the importance of statistical empirical research, which led the author to adopt a predominantly corpus-based approach.

Author : F. R. Palmer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781138836228
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modality and the English Modals written by F. R. Palmer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed account of the many uses and functions of these verbs. The nature of modality, and some controversial issues, are also discussed.

Author : Lowell Bouma
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110849097
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Semantics of the Modal Auxiliaries in Contemporary German written by Lowell Bouma and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lowell Bouma
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Total Pages : 136 pages
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Download or read book The Semantics of the Modal Auxiliaries in Contemporary German written by Lowell Bouma and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Raphael Salkie
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110213338
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modality in English written by Raphael Salkie and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2009-06-23 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents two kinds of studies on English modality. On the one hand, there are strongly empirical, corpus-based studies of individual uses of English modal auxiliaries and modal constructions, such as may in interrogatives, might in concessive clauses, shall and may vs must in legal English, the use of surprised if and surprising if constructions, the use and history of adhortative constructions, or the modal-aspectual use of come to in I came to realize that X. The book also contains work that presents new views on some of the classical issues, like the relations between modality and time, modality and commitment, modals and (inter)subjectivity. A special place is given to work that approaches the English modals from the perspective of the 'Theory of Enunciative Operations' developed by the French linguist Antoine Culioli and his colleagues. Thus the book provides new perspectives and answers on basic questions about modality, in general, and its expression in English, in particular.

Author : Paul Westney
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110958902
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modals and Periphrastics in English written by Paul Westney and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-02-07 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English has a number of periphrastic verbal forms that are semantically close to particular modal verbs and perform suppletive functions in relation to them (eg, have (got) to - must and be able to - can). After an exploration of the syntactic, semantic and phonological properties of potential periphrastic forms, this study investigates the nature of the relationship between the modals must, should, will and can and various semantically close periphrastics, using a spoken corpus of British English as the primary source of data. The focus is on the pragmatic interpretation of the items being compared, with some attention to their functions in discourse. These items are notoriously idiosyncratic both syntactically and semantically, but the general contrast claimed by some scholars between the maximally unmarked status of modals and the relatively marked status of periphrastics is amply confirmed, and this, together with the basic association of modality with alternative possible worlds, is shown to be reflected in a number of different ways, including the claimed 'objectivity' of periphrastics and the tendency of some to be associated with actuality. Level of formality is also found to be a significant, though not uniform, factor here.

Author : James W. Ney
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110831848
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Semantic Structures for the Syntax of Complements and Auxiliaries in English written by James W. Ney and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-07-22 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Semantic Structures for the Syntax of Complements and Auxiliaries in English".

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Total Pages : 126 pages
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Download or read book The semantics of the modal auxiliaries in contemporary German written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: