9783110184365: The Expression of Modality

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This book covers the essentials of modality and offers both foundational ideas and cutting edge advances. The book consists of what are essentially tutorials on modality and modal notions, covering definitions of modality, morphosyntactic form, conceptual and logical semantics, historical development, and acquisition. There are also specific chapters on modality in Zapotec and American Sign Language, which show the range of forms that modal notions can take. To assist its tutorial function, the book closes with a comprehensive conceptual outline of all the chapters.

Key features:

  • textbook
  • covers the essentials of modality
  • Well-known editor
  • Cognitive categories are currently among the most important areas of research in linguistics and beyond (biology, psychology)

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Informazioni sull?autore

William Frawley, University of Delaware, USA.

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Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  3110184354 ISBN 13:  9783110184358
Casa editrice: Mouton De Gruyter, 2006
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