| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 384 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Topics in English linguistics,
1434-3452 ;
58
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Topics in English linguistics ; 58.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Summary |
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 an. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English language -- Modality.
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English language -- Modality. |
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Modality (Linguistics)
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Modality (Linguistics) |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Salkie, Raphael.
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Busuttil, Pierre.
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Auwera, Johan van der.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Modality in English. Berlin ; New York : M. de Gruyter, ©2009 9783110196344 |
| ISBN |
9783110213331 (electronic book) |
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3110213338 (electronic book) |
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1282296515 |
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9781282296510 |
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9783110196344 (alkaline paper) |
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3110196344 (alkaline paper) |
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