Tag: Modality

Free Download Marta Carretero, "Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality: Conceptual and Descriptive Issues "
English | ISBN: 3034339933 | 2023 | 414 pages | PDF | 39 MB
Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality: Conceptual and Descriptive Issues presents ground-breaking research on the domains of evidentiality and epistemic modality. The book includes papers on key theoretical issues (the nature of evidential inference and the challengeability criterion for evidentiality), and descriptive studies covering various European languages (English, Spanish, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Romanian, Catalan and Latvian), based on general corpora or specific discourse types. The prominent corpus-based contrastive methodology uncovers a wide range of idiosyncratic discourse-pragmatic features of diverse languages, discourses and genres. The contributions are representative of the work on evidentiality and epistemic modality in a substantial number of countries.

Free Download Marta Carretero, "Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality: Conceptual and Descriptive Issues "
English | ISBN: 3034339933 | 2023 | 414 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality: Conceptual and Descriptive Issues presents ground-breaking research on the domains of evidentiality and epistemic modality. The book includes papers on key theoretical issues (the nature of evidential inference and the challengeability criterion for evidentiality), and descriptive studies covering various European languages (English, Spanish, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Romanian, Catalan and Latvian), based on general corpora or specific discourse types. The prominent corpus-based contrastive methodology uncovers a wide range of idiosyncratic discourse-pragmatic features of diverse languages, discourses and genres. The contributions are representative of the work on evidentiality and epistemic modality in a substantial number of countries.

Free Download Mood and Modality (2nd Edition) by F. R. Palmer
English | 2001 | ISBN: 0521800358 | 260 Pages | PDF | 5.3 MB
Since the publication of F. R. Palmer’s Mood and Modality in 1986, when the topic of "modality" was fairly unfamiliar, there has been considerable interest in the subject as well as in grammatical typology in general.

Free Download Eleni Staraki, "Modality in Modern Greek"
English | ISBN: 1443816965 | 2017 | 220 pages | PDF | 899 KB

Free Download Otávio Bueno, "The Routledge Handbook of Modality "
English | ISBN: 1138823317 | 2020 | 416 pages | EPUB | 14 MB
Modality – the question of what is possible and what is necessary – is a fundamental area of philosophy and philosophical research. The Routledge Handbook of Modality is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems and debates in this exciting subject and is the first collection of its kind. Comprising thirty-five chapters by a team of international contributors the Handbook is divided into seven clear parts:

Free Download Yitzhak Y. Melamed, "Modality: A History "
English | ISBN: 0190089865 | 2024 | 360 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 19 MB
Modality: A History provides readers a sweeping study of the history of philosophical work on modal concepts. Everyday discourse is saturated with appeals to what might be the case or to what must be true or to what cannot happen. Possibility, necessity, and impossibility are modal terms, and philosophers have long wondered how to best understand them. This volume traces the history of some of the most prominent and important contributions to our understanding of possibility and necessity over the past two and half millennia of western philosophy, from ancient Greek philosophers through current debates in the 21st century.

Free Download Paul Portner, "Modality (Oxford Surveys in Semantics and Pragmatics)"
English | 2009 | pages: 301 | ISBN: 0199292434, 0199292426 | PDF | 10,6 mb
This is a book about semantic theories of modality. Its main goal is to explain and evaluate important contemporary theories within linguistics and to discuss a wide range of linguistic phenomena from the perspective of these theories. The introduction describes the variety of grammatical phenomena associated with modality, explaining why modal verbs, adjectives, and adverbs represent the core phenomena. Chapters are then devoted to the possible worlds semantics for modality developed in modal logic; current theories of modal semantics within linguistics; and the most important empirical areas of research. The author concludes by discussing the relation between modality and other topics, especially tense, aspect, mood, and discourse meaning.

Free Download Ursula Stephany, "Development of Modality in First Language Acquisition: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective "
English | ISBN: 1501512455 | 2021 | 350 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 2 MB
This book deals with the development of modality from a crosslinguistic perspective and is closely related to two earlier volumes on the development of verb and nominal inflection in first language acquisition (SOLA 21 and 30) both methodologically and theoretically. Each of the fourteen contributions studies the early development of the form and function of expressions of deontic and dynamic agent-oriented modality or epistemic and evidential propositional modality in one of fourteen languages belonging to different morphological types and language families (seven Indo-European and seven non-Indo-European).

Free Download Werkmann Horvat, "Layers of Modality: On Double Modal Constructions by the Example of Croatian "
English | ISBN: 3110727315 | 2021 | 232 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Die Buchreihe Linguistische Arbeiten hat mit über 500 Bänden zur linguistischen Theoriebildung der letzten Jahrzehnte in Deutschland und international wesentlich beigetragen. Die Reihe wird auch weiterhin neue Impulse für die Forschung setzen und die zentrale Einsicht der Sprachwissenschaft präsentieren, dass Fortschritt in der Erforschung der menschlichen Sprachen nur durch die enge Verbindung von empirischen und theoretischen Analysen sowohl diachron wie synchron möglich ist. Daher laden wir hochwertige linguistische Arbeiten aus allen zentralen Teilgebieten der allgemeinen und einzelsprachlichen Linguistik ein, die aktuelle Fragestellungen bearbeiten, neue Daten diskutieren und die Theorieentwicklung vorantreiben.

Free Download Jozina Vander Klok, "Modality in Underdescribed Languages: Methods and Insights "
English | ISBN: 3110721287 | 2022 | 458 pages | PDF | 56 MB
Current semantic fieldwork research has shown that the study of modality cannot be conducted via translation alone, yet much of what we know about modal expressions across the world’s language is still translation-based. This book aims to facilitate the study of modality across more diverse languages and a wider participant base by explaining and illustrating a nuanced set of methods, including storyboards, questionnaires, corpora research, experimental tasks, as well as a discussion of practical semantic fieldwork techniques. The methodological protocols tested and employed by the authors on underdescribed languages – spanning seven different language families – are intended to be applicable as cross-linguistic tools, while also indicating the successes and challenges of their contributions. Expanding the study of modality to a wider set of underdescribed languages will undoubtedly bring new insights into our theoretical understanding of modality and deepen our understanding of a cross-linguistic typology of modal expressions.