Adverbs and Modality in English

ISBN-13: 9781138165311 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 334 str.

Leo Hoye

Opis

This study on modality in English represents a departure from more traditional approaches to the subject, where the modal auxiliaries have been the usual focus of attention, by examining in detail the nature of their association with different categories of modal adverb. Modality is notoriously complex but the present work offers both an accessible introduction to the topic as well as a comprehensive account of modal-adverb co-occurrence and a reassessment of how the expression of modality can be accounted for. The descriptive framework draws fresh insights from syntactic, semantic and pragmatic approaches to the study of language and communication, and from recent work in corpus linguistics. The book includes contrastive reference to the expression of modality in Spanish and a discussion of modality in such applied contexts as language teaching.

Spis treści

1. Introduction
2. Mood and Modality
3. The Modals and Their Adverb Satellites: An Overview
4. The Adverb Satellites and their Modal Verb Heads
5. Modal-Adverb Collocations in English with reference to Spanish
6. General Conclusion and Theoretical Implications
Corpus Bibliography
Main Bibliography
Index

O autorze

 Leo Hoye