Roberta Facchinetti & Frank Palmer 
Modality in Contemporary English [PDF ebook] 

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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

About the author

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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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 412 ● ISBN 9783110895339 ● File size 10.9 MB ● Editor Roberta Facchinetti & Frank Palmer ● Publisher De Gruyter ● City Berlin/Boston ● Published 2012 ● Edition 1 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 6298812 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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