Revisiting Modality a corpus-based study of epistemic adverbs in Galician

"This book presents the first in-depth investigation of modality in Galician linguistics, offering a theoretical discussion of modal categories and a fine-grained description of epistemic adverbs. The first half of the monograph deconstructs the most relevant approaches to modal categories and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Míguez, Vítor, autor (autor)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company [2024]
Colección:Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics Series ; 40
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Table of contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • Table of listings
  • Part I Preliminaries
  • Chapter 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 Scope and main goals
  • 1.2 Outline of the book
  • 1.3 From modus to modality
  • 1.4 Modality in Galician linguistics
  • Part II Theoretical background
  • Chapter 2 The concept of modality
  • 2.1 Modal taxonomies
  • 2.1.1 The traditional classes of modality
  • 2.1.2 Other proposals for the organization of modality
  • 2.1.2.1 Dynamic and deontic modality beyond the traditional view
  • 2.1.2.2 Alternative divisions of modal space
  • 2.1.2.3 Boulomaic modality
  • 2.1.3 Galician approaches to modality and the modals
  • 2.2 Theories of modality
  • 2.2.1 Possible worlds semantics
  • 2.2.2 The factuality approach
  • 2.2.3 Modality as force dynamics
  • 2.3 The typological perspective on modality
  • 2.4 Critical summary
  • Chapter 3 Functionalist approaches to modality
  • 3.1 Functional grammar models
  • 3.1.1 Functional Grammar
  • 3.1.2 Role and Reference Grammar
  • 3.1.3 Functional Procedural Grammar and the paradigmatic approach
  • 3.2 Systemic Functional Grammar
  • 3.3 Discourse-functional and interactional approaches6
  • Chapter 4 Modality and neighboring categories
  • 4.1 Modality and TAME
  • 4.1.1 Tense
  • 4.1.2 Aspect
  • 4.1.3 Mood
  • 4.1.4 Evidentiality
  • 4.2 Modality and discourse strategy
  • 4.2.1 Mitigation
  • 4.2.2 Concession
  • 4.2.3 Strengthening
  • 4.3 Modality and (inter)subjectivity
  • Chapter 5 Modality revisited
  • 5.1 A revision of modality and modal categories
  • 5.2 The expression of modal categories in Galician
  • Part III A focus on epistemic adverbs
  • Chapter 6 Corpus and method
  • 6.1 Epistemic modality as expressed by adverbs
  • 6.2 Galician epistemic adverbs
  • 6.2.1 Certamente and seguramente
  • 6.2.2 Probablemente and posiblemente.