Re-assessing modalising expressions : categories, co-text, and context / edited by Pascal Hohaus, Rainer Schulze.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Modalising expressions and modality : an overview of trends and challenges / Rainer Schulze & Pascal Hohaus -- Revisiting global and intra-categorial frequency shifts in the English modals : a usage-based, constructionist view on the heterogeneity of modal development / Robert Daugs -- The scope of modal categories : an empirical study / Heiko Narrog -- Not just frequency, not just modality : production and perception of English semi-modals / David Lorenz & David Tizón-Couto -- How and why seem became an evidential / Günther Lampert -- Conditionals, modality, and Schrödinger's cat : conditionals as a family of linguistic qubits / Costas Gabrielatos -- Modal marking in conditionals. Grammar, usage and discourse / Heiko Narrog -- Present-day English constructions with chance(s) in Talmy's greater modal system and beyond / An Van Linden & Lieselotte Brems -- A genre-based analysis of evaluative modality in multi-verb sequences in English / Noriko Matsumoto -- Epistemic modals in academic English : a contrastive study of engineering, medicine and linguistics research papers / María Luisa Carrió-Pastor -- On the (con)textual properties of must, have to and shall : an integrative account / Grégory Furmaniak -- "The future elected government should fully represent the interests of Hongkong people" : diachronic change in the use of modalising expressions in Hong Kong English between 1928 and 2018 / Carolin Biewer, Lisa Lehnen & Ninja Schulz.

"Mood, modality and evidentiality are popular and dynamic areas in linguistics. Re-Assessing Modalising Expressions - Categories, co-text, and context focuses on the specific issue of the ways language users express permission, obligation, volition (intention), possibility and ability, necessity and prediction linguistically. Using a range of evidence and corpus data collected from different sources, the authors of this volume examine the distribution and functions of a range of patterns involving modalising expressions as predominantly found in standard American English, British English or Hong Kong English, but also in Japanese. The authors are particularly interested in addressing (co-)textual manifestations of modalising expressions as well as their distribution across different text-types and thus filling a gap research was unable to plug in the past. Thoughts on categorising or re-categorising modalising expressions initiate and complement a multi-perspectival enterprise that is intended to bring research in this area a step forward"-- Provided by publisher.

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