ENGLISH

Modal Adjectives: English Deontic and Evaluative Constructions in Synchrony and Diachrony

By An van Linden

Book information

Publisher
Mouton de Gruyter
Year
2012
ISBN
3110252937, 9783110252934
ISSN
1434-3452
Google Books ID
r2ecj4pIscIC
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4237863 bytes)
Series
Topics in English Linguistics 75
Pages
xx+363\385
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2015-01-01 20:34:38
Языки и языкознание;Английский язык;Грамматика / E

Description

The book revisits the notion of deontic modality from the perspective of an understudied category in the modal domain, viz. adjectives. It analyses extraposition constructions with English adjectives like essential and appropriate, and uses this to refine traditional definitions of deontic modality. Together with dynamic and evaluative meanings, this category is integrated into a conceptual map, for which diachronic and synchronic evidence is adduced.

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