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Title Modes of modality : modality, typology, and universal grammar / edited by Elisabeth Leiss, University of Munich ; Werner Abraham, University of Vienna.

Publication Info. Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 511 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Studies in language companion series, 0165-7763 ; volume 149
Studies in language companion series ; v. 149.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Formal properties of modality -- Interpreting modals by phase heads / Daigo Akiba -- Evidentiality straddling T- and C-domains / Nadia Varley -- Typological surveys -- 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 -- 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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Subject Modality (Linguistics)
Modality (Linguistics)
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Mood.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Mood.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Tense.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Tense.
Cognitive grammar.
Cognitive grammar.
Typology (Linguistics)
Typology (Linguistics)
Linguistic universals.
Linguistic universals.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Leiss, Elisabeth, editor.
Abraham, Werner, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Modes of modality. Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2014] 9789027206169 (DLC) 2013041819 (OCoLC)861068679
ISBN 9789027270795 (electronic book)
9027270791 (electronic book)
1306347262 (e-book)
9781306347266 (e-book)
9789027206169 (hb : alkaline paper)
9027206163 (hb : alkaline paper)