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Modality in Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics (Hardcover)
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Modality in Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
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What do we mean when we say things like 'If only we knew what he
was up to!' Clearly this is more than just a message, or a question
to our addressee. We are expressing simultaneously that we don't
know, and also that we wish to know. Several modes of encoding
contribute to such modalities of expression: word order,
subordinating subjunctions, sentences that are subordinated but
nevertheless occur autonomously, and attitudinal discourse adverbs
which, far beyond lexical adverbials of modality, allow the speaker
and the listener to presuppose full agreement, partial agreement
under presupposed conditions, or negotiation of common ground. This
state of the art survey proposes a new model of modality, drawing
on data from a variety of Germanic and Slavic languages to find out
what is cross-linguistically universal about modality, and to argue
that it is a constitutive part of human cognition.
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