Modality in English theory and description
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 Engli...
| Otros Autores: | , , |
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
M. de Gruyter
2009.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Topics in English linguistics ; 58. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b34667672*spi |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | vi, 384 p. : il |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliografía: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice. |
| ISBN: | 9783110213331 9781282296510 |
