The Oxford handbook of modality and mood /
The Oxford handbook of modality and mood /
edited by Jan Nuyts and Johan van der Auwera.
- xiv, 667 pages : illustrations 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 559-620) and indexes.
The semantics of modality and mood -- The expression of modality and mood -- Sketches of modality and mood systems -- Wider perspectives on modality and mood -- Theoretical approaches.
This handbook offers an in depth and comprehensive state of the art survey of the linguistic domains of modality and mood. An international team of experts in the field examines the full range of methodological and theoretical approaches to the many facets of the phenomena involved. Parts 1 and 2 present the basic linguistic facts about the system of modality and mood in the languages of the world. Part 3 discusses the features of the modality and mood systems in five typologically different language groups, while chapters in Part 4 deal with wider perspectives on modality and mood. Finally, Part 5 looks at how modality and mood are handled in different theoretical approaches.
9780199591435 (hbk.);9780198826781 (pbk.);0199591431 (hbk.)
2016944841
Grammar, Comparative and general
Modality (Linguistics)
P 299.M6 / Ox22 2016
Includes bibliographical references (pages 559-620) and indexes.
The semantics of modality and mood -- The expression of modality and mood -- Sketches of modality and mood systems -- Wider perspectives on modality and mood -- Theoretical approaches.
This handbook offers an in depth and comprehensive state of the art survey of the linguistic domains of modality and mood. An international team of experts in the field examines the full range of methodological and theoretical approaches to the many facets of the phenomena involved. Parts 1 and 2 present the basic linguistic facts about the system of modality and mood in the languages of the world. Part 3 discusses the features of the modality and mood systems in five typologically different language groups, while chapters in Part 4 deal with wider perspectives on modality and mood. Finally, Part 5 looks at how modality and mood are handled in different theoretical approaches.
9780199591435 (hbk.);9780198826781 (pbk.);0199591431 (hbk.)
2016944841
Grammar, Comparative and general
Modality (Linguistics)
P 299.M6 / Ox22 2016
