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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      February 2021
      September 2020
      ISBN:
      9781139108676
      9781107021228
      9781107605503
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139108676
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.81kg, 456 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.68kg, 456 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Grammar and Syntax, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Language and Linguistics, Semantics and Pragmatics
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Linguistics (165)
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    Subjects:
    Grammar and Syntax, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Language and Linguistics, Semantics and Pragmatics
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Linguistics (165)
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    What do we mean when we say things like 'If only we knew what he was up to!' Clearly this is more than just a message, or a question to our addressee. We are expressing simultaneously that we don't know, and also that we wish to know. Several modes of encoding contribute to such modalities of expression: word order, subordinating subjunctions, sentences that are subordinated but nevertheless occur autonomously, and attitudinal discourse adverbs which, far beyond lexical adverbials of modality, allow the speaker and the listener to presuppose full agreement, partial agreement under presupposed conditions, or negotiation of common ground. This state of the art survey proposes a new model of modality, drawing on data from a variety of Germanic and Slavic languages to find out what is cross-linguistically universal about modality, and to argue that it is a constitutive part of human cognition.

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