Covert Modality In Non Finite Contexts
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Author |
: Rajesh Bhatt |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages |
: 215 |
Release |
: 2008-08-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783110197341 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3110197340 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Covert Modality in Non-finite Contexts by : Rajesh Bhatt
This book investigates the distribution and interpretation of Covert Modality. Covert Modality is modality which we interpret but which is not associated with any lexical item in the structure that we are interpreting. This dissertation investigates a class of environments that involves covert modality. Examples of covert modality include wh-infinitival complements, infinitival relative clauses, purpose clauses, the 'have to' construction, and the 'is to' construction (cf. 1): 1a. Tim knows [how to solve the problem]. ("Tim knows how one/he could/should solve the problem.") 1b. Jane found [a book to draw cartoons in] for Sara. ("Jane found a book for Sara one could/should draw cartoons in.") 1c. [The man to fix the sink] is here. ("The man whose purpose is to fix the sink is here.") 1d. Sue went to Torino [to buy a violin]. ("Sue went to Torino so that she could buy a violin.") 1e. Bill has to reach Philadelphia before noon. ("Bill must reach Philadelphia before noon.") 1f. Will is to leave tomorrow. ("Will is scheduled/supposed to leave tomorrow.") The interpretation of (1a-f) involves modality; however, there is no lexical item that seems to be the source of the modality. What (1a-f) have in common is that they involve infinitivals. This book addresses the following questions about covert modality: what is the source of this modality, what are its semantic properties, why are some but not all infinitival relatives modal, and why are all infinitival questions modal? The infinitival [+wh] Complementizer is identified as the source of the covert modality. The apparent variability of the force of this modality is related to the particular semantics of this Complementizer. Infinitival relatives that receive a non-modal interpretation are analyzed as being reduced relatives and thus not involving the infinitival [+wh] Complementizer.
Author |
: Rajesh Bhatt |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages |
: 216 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783110179521 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3110179520 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis Covert Modality in Non-finite Contexts by : Rajesh Bhatt
Main description: This book investigates the distribution and interpretation of Covert Modality. Covert Modality is modality which we interpret but which is not associated with any lexical item in the structure that we are interpreting. The book analyzes a class of environments that involves covert modality e.g. infinitival questions, infinitival relative clauses, purpose clauses, the 'have to' construction, and the 'is to' construction.
Author |
: Werner Abraham |
Publisher |
: Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 450 |
Release |
: 2012-11-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781443842914 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1443842915 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis Covert Patterns of Modality by : Werner Abraham
This typological overview compares the degree to which different languages have means to give expression to modality (possibility, necessity) without lexical and direct inflectional means. The criterial patterns derive from a variety of languages such as German, English, Chinese, French, Scandinavian, Italian, Romanian, Russian, Polish, and Gothic as well as Old High German. They encompass mainly the auxiliaries HAVE and BE, together with either an infinitival embedding of a full verb linked by the infinitival preposition TO, or other aspectual means. It is demonstrated that what appears as typical covert modal expressions in the Germanic languages, and the Indo-European ones in a wider sense, cannot be seen as a recurrent pattern in non-Indo-European languages. Yet, there are recurrent and plausible forms that allow for generalizations.
Author |
: Sibilla Cantarini |
Publisher |
: John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages |
: 377 |
Release |
: 2014-11-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789027269140 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9027269149 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis Certainty-uncertainty – and the Attitudinal Space in Between by : Sibilla Cantarini
The selected papers of this volume cover five main topics, namely ‘Certainty: The conceptual differential’; ‘(Un)Certainty as attitudinality’; ‘Dialogical exchange and speech acts’; ‘Onomasiology’; and ‘Applications in exegesis and religious discourse’. By examining the general theme of the communication of certainty and uncertainty from different scientific fields, theoretical approaches and perspectives, this compendium of state-of-the-art research papers provides both an interdisciplinary comparison of the latest investigations, methods and findings, and new advances and theoretical insights with a common focus on human communication.
Author |
: Luis Eguren |
Publisher |
: John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 258 |
Release |
: 2007-11-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789027291257 |
ISBN-13 |
: 902729125X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Coreference, Modality, and Focus by : Luis Eguren
This volume is a collection of selected papers originally presented at the XVIth Colloquium on Generative Grammar that was held at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. All the papers deal with current issues within the generative framework, mostly paying attention to phenomena pertaining to the syntax-semantics interface. The major concerns are coreference relations, modals and modality, and focus/ellipsis. More specifically, the contributions present research findings from different languages, often adopting a comparative perspective, and include studies on sub-extraction from subjects and objects; on obviation and Control structures; on specificity and Weak Crossover effects; and on reconstruction without movement, as well as papers that address the scopal interactions between tense/aspect and modals; the syntactic and semantic properties of different types of left-periphery operators; and the role focus plays in elliptical constructions.
Author |
: Joanna Blaszczak |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 457 |
Release |
: 2017-01-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226363660 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022636366X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mood, Aspect, Modality Revisited by : Joanna Blaszczak
Over the past several decades, linguistic theorizing of tense, aspect, and mood (TAM), along with a strongly growing body of crosslinguistic studies, has revealed complexity in the data that challenges traditional distinctions and treatments of these categories. Mood, Aspect, Modality Revisited argues that it’s time to revisit our conventional assumptions and reconsider our foundational questions: What exactly is a linguistic category? What kinds of categories do labels such as “subjunctive,” “imperative,” “future,” and “modality” truly refer to? In short, how categorical are categories? Current literature assumes a straightforward link between grammatical category and semantic function, and descriptions of well-studied languages have cultivated a sense of predictability in patterns over time. As the editors and contributors of Mood, Aspect, Modality Revisited prove, however, this predictability and stability vanish in the study of lesser-known patterns and languages. The ten provocative essays gathered here present fascinating cutting-edge research demonstrating that the traditional grammatical distinctions are ultimately fluid—and perhaps even illusory. Developing groundbreaking and highly original theories, the contributors in this volume seek to unravel more general, fundamental principles of TAM that can help us better understand the nature of linguistic representations.
Author |
: Elisabeth Leiss |
Publisher |
: John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages |
: 519 |
Release |
: 2014-01-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789027270795 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9027270791 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Modes of Modality by : Elisabeth Leiss
The volume aims at a universal definition of modality or “illocutionary/speaker’s perspective force” that is strong enough to capture the entire range of different subtypes and varieties of modalities in different languages. The central idea is that modality is all-pervasive in language. This perspective on modality allows for the integration of covert modality as well as peripheral instances of modality in neglected domains such as the modality of insufficieny, of attitudinality, or neglected domains such as modality and illocutionary force in finite vs. nonfinite and factive vs. non-factive subordinated clauses. In most languages, modality encompasses modal verbs both in their root and epistemic meanings, at least where these languages have the principled distribution between root and epistemic modality in the first place (which is one fundamentally restricted, in its strict qualitative and quantitative sense, to the Germanic languages). In addition, this volume discusses one other intricate and partially highly mysterious class of modality triggers: modal particles as they are sported in the Germanic languages (except for English). It is argued in the contributions and the languages discussed in this volume how modal verbs and adverbials, next to modal particles, are expressed, how they are interlinked with contextual factors such as aspect, definiteness, person, verbal factivity, and assertivity as opposed to other attitudinal types. An essential concept used and argued for is perspectivization (a sub-concept of possible world semantics). Language groups covered in detail and compared are Slavic, Germanic, and South East Asian. The volume will interest researchers in theoretical and applied linguistics, typology, the semantics/pragmatics interface, and language philosophy as it is part of a larger project developing an alternative approach to Universal Grammar that is compatible with functionalist approaches.
Author |
: Paul Portner |
Publisher |
: OUP Oxford |
Total Pages |
: 304 |
Release |
: 2009-01-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780191558962 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0191558966 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis Modality by : Paul Portner
This is a book about semantic theories of modality. Its main goal is to explain and evaluate important contemporary theories within linguistics and to discuss a wide range of linguistic phenomena from the perspective of these theories. The introduction describes the variety of grammatical phenomena associated with modality, explaining why modal verbs, adjectives, and adverbs represent the core phenomena. Chapters are then devoted to the possible worlds semantics for modality developed in modal logic; current theories of modal semantics within linguistics; and the most important empirical areas of research. The author concludes by discussing the relation between modality and other topics, especially tense, aspect, mood, and discourse meaning. Paul Portner's accessible guide to this key area of current research will be welcomed by students of linguistics at graduate level and above, as well as by researchers in philosophy, computational science, and related fields.
Author |
: Elena Domínguez |
Publisher |
: Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 485 |
Release |
: 2015-10-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781443885645 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1443885649 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Thinking Modally by : Elena Domínguez
This volume brings together a selection of the papers presented at the 4th International Conference on Modality in English, held in Madrid on 9–11 September 2010. The book is divided into two parts, with the first encompassing contributions focusing on the notions of modality, evidentiality and temporality, and the second those that explore modality and its connection with stance and evaluation in specific genres and discourse domains.
Author |
: Anna Pineda |
Publisher |
: BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages |
: 438 |
Release |
: 2020-05-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783961102501 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3961102503 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis Dative constructions in Romance and beyond by : Anna Pineda
This book offers a comprehensive account of dative structures across languages –with an important, though not exclusive, focus on the Romance family. As is well-known, datives play a central role in a variety of structures, ranging from ditransitive constructions to cliticization of indirect objects and differentially marked direct objects, and including also psychological predicates, possessor or causative constructions, among many others. As interest in all these topics has increased significantly over the past three decades, this volume provides an overdue update on the state of the art. Accordingly, the chapters in this volume account for both widely discussed patterns of dative constructions as well as those that are relatively unknown.