Mood and Modality
Mood and Modality
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Since the publication of F. R. Palmer's Mood and Modality in 1986, when the topic of "modality" was fairly unfamiliar, there has been considerable interest in the subject as well as in grammatical typology in general. Modality is concerned with mood (subjunctive etc.) and with modal markers such as English modal verbs (can, may, must etc.) and is treated as a single grammatical category found in most of the languages of the world. Palmer investigates this category, drawing on a wealth of examples from a wide variety of languages.
- WRITTEN BY A PIONEER IN THE FIELD of modality
- CONSIDERABLE INTEREST IN THE TOPIC OF MODALITY SINCE THE PUBLICATION OF Palmer's Mood and Modality (OVER 6000 COPIES SOLD)
- BRINGS RESEARCH ON MODALITY more UP TO DATE
Reviews & endorsements
'These are complex areas … and as a basic guide to the problems and the terminology in the field this is a valuable book.' Raphael Salkie, MLR
Product details
April 2001Paperback
9780521804790
260 pages
230 × 154 × 18 mm
0.423kg
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- Note on the text
- List of abbreviations
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Modal systems: propositional modality
- 3. Modal systems: event modality
- 4. Modal systems and modal verbs
- 5. Indicative and subjunctive
- 6. Realis and Irrealis
- 7. Subjunctive and irrealis
- 8. Past tense as modal
- References
- Language index
- General index.
