Modality in English : theory and description /

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Imprint:	Berlin ; New York : M. de Gruyter, ©2009.
Description:	1 online resource (vi, 384 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Topics in English linguistics, 1434-3452 ; 58 Topics in English linguistics ; 58.
Subject:	English language -- Modality. Modality (Linguistics) English language -- Modality. Modality (Linguistics) Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11281738

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Other authors / contributors:	Salkie, Raphael. Busuttil, Pierre. Auwera, Johan van der.
ISBN:	9783110213331 3110213338 1282296515 9781282296510 9783110196344 3110196344 9786612296512 6612296518
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes. English. Print version record.
Summary:	This volume presents two kinds of studies on English modality. On the one hand, there are strongly empirical, corpus-based studies of individual uses of English modal auxiliaries and modal constructions, such as may in interrogatives, might in concessive clauses, shall and may vs must in legal English, the use of surprised if and surprising if constructions, the use and history of adhortative constructions, or the modal-aspectual use of come to in I came to realize that X. The book also contains work that presents new views on some of the classical issues, like the relations between modality an.
Other form:	Print version: Modality in English. Berlin ; New York : M. de Gruyter, ©2009 9783110196344
Standard no.:	10.1515/9783110213331

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