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1 online resource (vi, 511 pages) : illustrations |
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Studies in language companion series, 0165-7763 ; volume 149 |
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Studies in language companion series ; v. 149.
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| Contents |
Formal properties of modality -- Interpreting modals by phase heads / Daigo Akiba -- Evidentiality straddling T- and C-domains / Nadia Varley -- Typological surveys -- The syntax of modal polyfunctionality revisited : evidence from the languages of Europe / Björn Hansen -- Mora da as a marker of modal meanings in Macedonian : on correlations between categorial restrictions and morphosyntactic behaviour / Björn Wiemer -- Modal semantics and morphosyntax of the Latvian debitive / Ilze Lokmane & Andra Kalnača -- Deontic or epistemic? habēre as a modal marker of future certainty in Macedonian / Liljana Mitkovska & Eleni Bužarovska -- Epistemic, evidential and attitudinal markers in clause-medial position in Cantonese / Foong Ha Yap & Winnie Oi-Wan Chor -- Interfaces between mood and modality -- Modal particles in rationale clauses and related constructions / Patrick Grosz -- Modal particles in causal clauses : the case of German weil wohl / Mathias Schenner & Frank Sode -- Modality conceptualizations -- Enablement and possibility / Raphael Salkie -- The modal category of sufficiency / Chantal Melis -- Diachronie derivation -- From agent-oriented modality to sequential : the polysemy of the marker ni in Kakabe (Mande) / Alexandra Vydrina -- Covert modality -- A rare case of covert modality : Spoken Polish and the novel periphrastic past with mieć 'have' / Werner Abraham & Jadwiga Piskorz -- (C)Overt epistemic modality and its perspectival effects on the textual surface / Sonja Zeman -- Dimensions of implicit modality in Igbo / Chinedu Uchechukwu -- Index |
| Summary |
Modality is one of the grammatical categories in Igbo language studies that received the least attention within the last century. There is, however, a growing awareness that the category of modality is expressed in the language through specific verbs and suffixes that have recently been (re- )categorised as modal verbs and modal suffixes, respectively (Uchechukwu 2008, 2011). This paper explores further the issue of modality in Igbo by focusing on the constructions and lexical items that could be involved in the implicit expression of modality in the language. The different types of constructio |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Modality (Linguistics)
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Mood.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Tense.
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Cognitive grammar.
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Typology (Linguistics)
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Linguistic universals.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
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Cognitive grammar
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Mood
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Tense
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Linguistic universals
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Modality (Linguistics)
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Typology (Linguistics)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Leiss, Elisabeth, editor
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Abraham, Werner, editor
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| ISBN |
9789027270795 |
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9027270791 |
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1306347262 |
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9781306347266 |
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