Modality in Grammar and Discourse

Name: Modality in Grammar and Discourse
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Joan L. Bybee Suzanne Fleischman(Editor)

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MODALITY IN GRAMMAR AND DISCOURSE
Editorial page
Title page
Copyright page
To the memory of Dwight Bolinger
Table of contents
Modality in Grammar and Discourse An Introductory Essay
Mood and modality
Function and its relation to linguistic form
Modal categories and their associated nomenclature
Agent-oriented and epistemic modality
The interactional basis of modality
Irrealis modality and subjunctive
Modality and other categories of grammar
NOTES
REFERENCES
I. Agent-Oriented and Epistemic Modality
Agent-Oriented vs. Epistemic Modality Some Observations on German Modals
1. Introduction
2. German modals
3. Context
4. On models
5. Conclusions
NOTES
REFERENCES
ABBREVIATIONS
APPENDIX
The Expression of Root and Epistemic Possibility in English
1. The root/epistemic distinction
2. Root and epistemic possibility
3. The linguistic consequences of a weak root/epistemic contrast
4. Conclusions
NOTES
REFERENCES
Contextual Conditions for the Interpretation of 'poder' and 'deber' in Spanish
1. Introduction
2. Theoretical frameworks
3. Poder
4. Deber
5. Modality and tense mood aspect
5. Conclusions
NOTES
REFERENCES
The Obligation Modality in Western Nilotic Languages
1. Introduction
2. The Western Nilotic languages
3. Lexical sources
4. Semantics of the Obligation marker in Lango and Acholi
5. Verb sources for grammatical categories in the languages
6. Use of the lexical verb for 'want' for agent-oriented modalities
7. Conclusions
ABBREVIATIONS
NOTES
REFERENCES
The Gestural Expression of Modality in ASL
1. Issues in the linguistic description of ASL
2. Modality in ASL
3. Iconicity in ASL
4. Conclusion
NOTES
REFERENCES
II. The Interaction Basis of Modality
The Development of Epistemic Sentence-ending Modal Forms and Functions in Korean Children
2. Linguistic coding of evidentiality and knowledge status
3. The modal system in Korean
4. Development of SE suffixes in Korean children
ABBREVIATIONS
NOTES
REFERENCES
The Interactional Basis of the Mandarin Modal néng 'CAN'
1. Introduction
2. Data
3. The physical meaning category
4. The social meaning category
5. The ambiguous case category
6. The epistemic-like meaning category
7. Discussion
NOTES
REFERENCES
The Discourse and Interactive Functions of Obligation Expressions
0. Introduction.
1. Preliminary considerations.
2. Empirical studies.
3. Conclusion.
NOTES
DATA SOURCES
REFERENTIES
Apprehensional Epistemics
1. Introduction
2. Apprehensional-epistemic modality in To'aba'ita
3. Apprehensional epistemics in other languages
4. The development of apprehensional epistemics
5. Directionality in semantic/functional change
ABBREVIATIONS
NOTES
REFERENCES
Moods and MetaMessages. Alienation as a Mood
0. Introduction
1. The sarcastive
2. The guiltive
3. The mass-productive
4. Proper names & common nouns
Conclusion
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
REFERENCES
III. Irrealis Modality and Subjunctive
The Realis-Irrealis Distinction in Caddo, the Northern Iroquoian Languages, and English
0. Introduction
1. Caddo
2. The Northern Iroquoian languages
3. English
4. Conclusion
FOOTNOTES
REFERENCES
On the Relativity of Irreality
0. Introduction
1. Central Porno
2. Some cross-linguistic differences
3. Conclusion
ABBREVIATIONS
NOTE
REFERENCES
The Grammaticalization of Irrealis in Tok Pisin
0. Introduction
1. Brief description of corpus
2. Baimbai, bai and the marking of irrealis
3. Discussion of syntactic developments in historical and comparative perspective
4. Semantic development of bai
5. Conclusion
FOOTNOTES:
REFERENCES
The Evaluative Function of the Spanish Subjunctive
1. Introduction
2. Complementary theme/rheme analyses
3. Journalistic uses of the Subjunctive
4. Dialect variation
5. Other sources of instability in the mood system
6. The two forms of the Past Subjunctive in Spanish
7. Dialect variation in the use of the -se Past Subjunctive
8. Textual patterns of Subjunctive use
9. Conclusions
NOTES
REFERENCES
IV. Modality and Other Categories of Grammar
Negation and the Modals of Possibility and Necessity
Introduction
1. The nature of the irregularity
2. The modals of possibility and necessity
3. The language material
4. Regular and irregular systems
5. Logical suppletion
6. Deontic 'not-possible' and 'necessary-not'
7. Function of the negative
8. Possible explanations
REFERENCES
APPENDIX
A Functional Theory of Complementizers
1. Introduction
2. The notion of complementizer
3. Hypothesis
4. The 'null' COMP in the main clause
5. Two complementizers in a sequence
6. Two disjoint complementizers
7. Two complementizers in Lele
8. Two complementizers in Mupun
9. Two complementizers in Polish
10. Complementizers and inversion in English
11 Conclusions
NOTES
REFERENCES
The Semantic Development of Past Tense Modals in English
1. Should and would in Old and Middle English.
2. Should and would in Shakespeare
3. Implications
NOTES
REFERENCES
Imperfective and Irrealis
1. Introduction
2. Defining the categories
3. Imperfective aspect in conditional sentences
4. Motion-derived futures
5. The 'pre-ludic' imperfect
6. Politeness forms
7. The 'hypocoristic' Imperfect
8. Imperfective aspect and irrealis worlds
9. Speech and thought quotation
10. Habitual and irrealis
11. Imperfective and irrealis: why the attraction?
12. Conclusion
NOTES
REFERENCES
Index of subjects
Index of languages
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