Modality and Mood in Romance : Modal interpretation, mood selection, and mood alternation.
Title:
Modality and Mood in Romance : Modal interpretation, mood selection, and mood alternation.
Author:
Becker, Martin G.
ISBN:
9783110234343
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (251 pages)
Series:
Linguistische Arbeiten ; v.533
Linguistische Arbeiten
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Modality and Mood in Romance: An introduction -- Modal readings of sentence connectives in German and Portuguese -- 'Modal uses' of the Italian imperfetto and the Spanish imperfecto: a comparison -- Modal non-finite relatives in Romance -- Epistemic modality and evidentiality and their definition on a deictic basis -- Where mood, modality and illocution meet: the morphosyntax of Romance conjectures -- Modality, context change potential and mood selection in European Portuguese -- On the (un)stability of mood distribution in Romance -- Grammaticalization and language comparison in the Romance mood system -- Principles of mood change in evaluative contexts: the case of French -- Backmatter.
Abstract:
Die Buchreihe Linguistische Arbeiten (LA) trägt wesentlich zur aktuellen linguistischen Theoriebildung im Bereich der allgemeinen und einzelsprachlichen Linguistik bei. Veröffentlicht werden hochwertige Arbeiten, die aktuelle Fragestellungen bearbeiten und die Entwicklung der Sprachwissenschaft, synchron oder diachron, empirisch oder theoretisch orientiert, vorantreiben.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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