Inhoudsopgave
Preface
Roberta Facchinetti, Manfred Krug, Frank Palmer
Modality in English: theoretical, descriptive and typological issues
Frank Palmer
The semantics and pragmatics of core modal verbs
Irrealis, past time reference and modality
Paul Larreya
Modal auxiliary constructions, TAM and interrogatives
Richard Matthews
A pragmatic analysis of the epistemic would construction in English
Gregory Ward, Betty J. Birner, Jeffrey P. Kaplan
Towards a contextual micro-analysis of the non-equivalence of might and could
Stéphane Gresset
The status of emerging modal items
On two distinct uses of go as a conjoined marker of evaluative modality
Philippe Bourdin
Had better and might as well: on the margins of modality?
Keith Mitchell
What you and I want: A functional approach to verb complementation of modal want to
Heidi Verplaetse
Between epistemic modality and degree: the case of really
Carita Paradis
Stylistic variation and change
Modality on the move: the English modal auxiliaries 1961-1992
Geoffrey Leech
Over de auteur
Roberta Facchinetti is Associate Professor at the University of Verona, Italy.
Manfred Krug is Associate Professor at the University of Freiburg, Germany.
Frank R. Palmer is Professor Emeritus at the University of Reading, UK.
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