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Título:Revisiting Modality
Subtítulo:A corpus-based study of epistemic adverbs in Galician
Autor/a:Míguez, Vítor
Año de publicación:2024
Lugar de edición:Ámsterdam
Editorial:John Benjamins
Descripción

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.

Temática:Lingüística de corpus, Pragmática, Semántica, Sintaxis
Índice

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

ColecciónIssues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics
Formato:Hardbound / e-Book
Págs.:234
ISBN-13:9789027214737
Precio: 120,00 EUR      USD 120.00
Remitente:Vítor Míguez
Institución: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Correo-e: <vitor.miguezusc.gal>
Fecha de publicación en Infoling:8 de mayo de 2024