By Roberta Facchinetti, Manfred Krug, Frank Palmer
This ebook bargains unique theoretical bills and a wealth of descriptive details touching on modality in present-day English. even as, it offers clean impetus to extra basic linguistic concerns equivalent to grammaticalization, colloquialization, or the interaction among sociolinguistic and syntactic constraints. The articles fall into 4 sections: (a) the semantics and pragmatics of center modal verbs; (b) the prestige of rising modal goods; (c) stylistic version and alter; (d) sociolinguistic edition and syntactic versions. The ebook is of substantial worth to scholars and academics of English and Linguistics at undergraduate and graduate point around the world.
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The semantic overlapping of two types of modality (epistemic and deontic) is not surprising in the case of should, which never expresses "pure" logical necessity: as is well known, it is possible to say He should be better after taking this medicine, but not (at least in a "normal" context) #He should be worse after taking this medicine. ). (McGrath 1996: 132) And who should I see in the lobby, sitting in a chair and reading a newspaper, but Mr. Earl Higgins, alias Old Cue-Ball. (King [2000] 2001:76) Irrealis, past time reference and modality (42) 39 The director had sent word that he had decided to use the day, if it should indeed be fine, to shoot one of the most important scenes in the film.
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