Modality and Mood in Romance
Modal interpretation, mood selection, and mood alternation
1st Edition
Published on 20. December 2010
VI, 245 pages
978-3-11-023434-3 (ISBN)
Description
This collective volume contains a selection of research contributions, presented at the 30th Deutscher Romanistentag [German Conference on Romance languages and literatures] in 2007 in Vienna in the section "Mood and Modality in Romance". The Romance languages studied here include Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Catalan and French. All contributions thematically explore the status and importance of modality and mood and their reciprocal relationships with reference to theoretical approaches.
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Martin G. Becker | Eva-Maria Remberger
Modality and Mood in Romance
Modal interpretation, mood selection, and mood alternation
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12/2010
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Martin G. Becker, University of Cologne, Germany; Eva-Maria Remberger, University of Konstanz, Germany.
Content
- Frontmatter
- Table of contents
- Modality and Mood in Romance: An introduction
- Modal readings of sentence connectives in German and Portuguese
- 'Modal uses' of the Italian imperfetto and the Spanish imperfecto: a comparison
- Modal non-finite relatives in Romance
- Epistemic modality and evidentiality and their definition on a deictic basis
- Where mood, modality and illocution meet: the morphosyntax of Romance conjectures
- Modality, context change potential and mood selection in European Portuguese
- On the (un)stability of mood distribution in Romance
- Grammaticalization and language comparison in the Romance mood system
- Principles of mood change in evaluative contexts: the case of French
- Backmatter
