Modal Adjectives: English Deontic and Evaluative Constructions in Diachrony and Synchrony
(Book #75 in the Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] Series)
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The book revisits the notion of deontic modality from the perspective of an understudied category in the modal domain, viz. adjectives. On the basis of synchronic and diachronic corpus studies, it analyses the semantics of English adjectives like essential and appropriate, and uses this to refine traditional definitions of deontic modality, which are mainly based on the study of modal verbs. In a first step, it is shown that the set of meanings...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:3110252937
ISBN13:9783110252934
Release Date:February 2012
Publisher:de Gruyter Mouton
Length:383 Pages
Weight:1.57 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"
Age Range:22 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary
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