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This book presents the first in-depth investigation of modality in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galician_l... target="_blank" rel="noopener">Galician linguistics, offering a theoretical discussion of modal categories and a fine-grained description of epistemic adverbs.
The first half of the monograph deconstructs the most relevant approaches to modal categories and shows
- how the traditional concept of modality is a problematic notion,
- how it relates to other concepts such as evidentiality and mitigation, and
- how it ought to be conceived of in order to become a more useful instrument for linguistic analysis.
A new way of understanding modality is explored and illustrated through Galician examples. The second half of the book zooms in on six epistemic adverbs, which are exhaustively studied from both a formal and a functional perspective. Combining a quantitative and a qualitative perspective, the book shows that adverbs make up a rich semantic scale and establishes several factors that condition their occurrence in discourse, challenging previous conceptions of this grammatical domain.
Part I. Preliminaries
Chapter 1. Introduction
Part II. Theoretical background
Chapter 2. The concept of modality
Chapter 3. Functionalist approaches to modality
Chapter 4. Modality and neighboring categories
Chapter 5. Modality revisited: The Galician system
Part III. A focus on epistemic adverbs
Chapter 6. Corpus and method
Chapter 7. Epistemic adverbs: Syntagmatic and paradigmatic properties
Chapter 8. Epistemic adverbs: A pragmatic approach
Part IV. Conclusion
Chapter 9. General summary and discussion
Bibliography
Appendixes
Appendix A. Appendix of tables
Appendix B. Appendix of listings (R output)
Index
Institución: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Correo-e: <vitor.miguezusc.gal>