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1 online resource |
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Oxford linguistics ; 63 |
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Oxford linguistics ; 63.
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| Contents |
Cover; Modality Across Syntactic Categories; Copyright; Contents; General preface; List of abbreviations; List of contributors; Introduction; 1.1 Background and scope; 1.2 The case of "low" modality; 1.2.1 Modality in the nominal domain; 1.2.2 Modality in the verbal domain; 1.3 Middle modality; 1.4 High modality; 1.5 Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Part I: Low modality; 2: Epistemic indefinites: On the content and distribution of the epistemic component; 2.1 Epistemic indefinites; 2.2 The Conceptual Cover Approach; 2.3 The challenge of algún; 2.3.1 Challenge 1: No context shift |
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2.3.2 Challenge 2: Ostension is sometimes possible2.3.3 Challenge 3: Co-variation; 2.4 The Implicature Approach; 2.5 A challenge: the content of the epistemic effect; 2.6 Reconciling the two approaches; 2.6.1 The starting point; 2.6.2 A possible implementation; 2.7 Conclusion; Acknowledgments; 3: Modal indefinites:Where doJapanese wh-kas fit in?; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Form: what do Japanese wh-ka indeterminates look like?; 3.3 Content: the epistemic component; 3.4 Wh-ka indeterminates in unembedded contexts: types of ignorance; 3.4.1 Types vs. tokens: what-ka vs. which-ka |
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3.4.2 Wh-ka indeterminates convey partial ignorance3.4.3 Sources of evidence; 3.5 Interaction with overt modals; 3.6 Downward entailing environments; 3.7 Lack of agent-oriented readings; 3.8 Ignorance about quantity; 3.9 To conclude; 4: Modality in the nominal domain:The case of adnominal conditionals; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Adnominal conditionals are not displaced matrix conditionals; 4.2.1 Preliminary evidence; 4.2.1.1 No parenthetical intonation necessary; 4.2.1.2 Constituency structure; 4.2.1.3 Contexts where extraction is not allowed; 4.2.2 More meaningful evidence |
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4.2.2.1 Embedding contexts (concealed questions)4.2.2.2 Extensional contexts; 4.2.3 Summary; 4.3 Discussion of Lasersohn (1996); 4.4 Background for the analysis; 4.4.1 Matrix if-clauses and modals; 4.4.2 A textbook analysis of modal adjectives; 4.5 The proposal for ACs: a parsimonious extension to the nominal domain; 4.5.1 ACs with overt modals; 4.5.2 ACs without overt modals; 4.5.3 Iterated modality; 4.5.4 One further prediction: ACs and relative clauses; 5: The non-modality of opinion verbs; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Finding judges; 5.3 Thinking epistemic modals; 5.4 Radical reductionism |
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5.5 Conclusion6: Sublexical modality in defeasiblecausative verbs; 6.1 Verbs under consideration; 6.2 The role of outer aspect; 6.3 A first analysis in terms of event complexity; 6.3.1 Introduction; 6.3.2 Event structure tests; 6.4 Defeasible causatives as sublexical modal verbs; 6.4.1 Sublexical modality; 6.4.2 Proposal; 6.5 Defeasible causatives with animate subjects; 6.6 Defeasible causatives with inanimate subjects; 6.6.1 Causers vs. instruments; 6.6.2 Abnormal reactions; 6.7 Conclusions; Acknowledgments; 7: Straddling the line between attitudeverbs and necessity modals; 7.1 Introduction |
| Summary |
This volume explores the linguistic expression of modality in natural language from a cross-linguistic perspective. Modal expressions provide the basic tools that allow us to dissociate what we say from what is actually going on, allowing us to talk about what might happen or might have happened, as well as what is required, desirable, or permitted. Chapters in the book demonstrate that modality involves many more syntactic categories and levels of syntactic structure than traditionally assumed. The volume distinguishes between three types of modality: 'low modality', which concerns modal interpretations associated with the verbal and nominal cartographies in syntax; 'middle modality', or modal interpretation associated to the syntactic cartography internal to the clause; and 'high modality', relating to the left periphery. It combines cross-linguistic discussions of the more widely-studied sources of modality with analyses of novel or unexpected sources, and shows how the meanings associated with the three types of modality are realized across a wide range of languages |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 31, 2017) |
| Subject |
Modality (Linguistics)
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
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Modality (Linguistics)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Arregui, Ana, 1970- editor.
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Rivero, María Luisa, editor.
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Salanova, Andrés, editor
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| ISBN |
9780191028038 |
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0191028037 |
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9780191787539 |
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0191787531 |
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