Tag: Modality

Free Download Azita H. Taleghani, "Modality, Aspect and Negation in Persian"
English | 2008 | pages: 199 | ISBN: 9027255113 | PDF | 2,8 mb
This monograph presents a morpho-syntactic investigation on modality, aspect, and negation by concentrating on Persian, and is designed to contribute to theoretical linguistics and the study of Iranian languages. The analysis is based on the Minimalist program. This research challenges the idea that the syntactic structure maps on the semantic interpretation or vice versa. The discussion presented in this monograph shows that the syntactic structure of Persian modals is uniform no matter if the modals are interpreted as having root or epistemic readings. Although it is claimed that modals are raising constructions in different languages, modals in Persian, which does not have subject-raising constructions, show a different syntactic behavior. Furthermore, the structural analysis of the interaction of Persian modals and negation shows that because of the scope interaction of negation and modals, the syntactic structure of modals with respect to negation mostly corresponds to the semantic interpretation of modals.

Free Download Marta Carretero, "Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality: Conceptual and Descriptive Issues "
English | ISBN: 3034339933 | 2023 | 414 pages | PDF | 39 MB
Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality: Conceptual and Descriptive Issues presents ground-breaking research on the domains of evidentiality and epistemic modality. The book includes papers on key theoretical issues (the nature of evidential inference and the challengeability criterion for evidentiality), and descriptive studies covering various European languages (English, Spanish, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Romanian, Catalan and Latvian), based on general corpora or specific discourse types. The prominent corpus-based contrastive methodology uncovers a wide range of idiosyncratic discourse-pragmatic features of diverse languages, discourses and genres. The contributions are representative of the work on evidentiality and epistemic modality in a substantial number of countries.

Free Download Marta Carretero, "Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality: Conceptual and Descriptive Issues "
English | ISBN: 3034339933 | 2023 | 414 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality: Conceptual and Descriptive Issues presents ground-breaking research on the domains of evidentiality and epistemic modality. The book includes papers on key theoretical issues (the nature of evidential inference and the challengeability criterion for evidentiality), and descriptive studies covering various European languages (English, Spanish, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Romanian, Catalan and Latvian), based on general corpora or specific discourse types. The prominent corpus-based contrastive methodology uncovers a wide range of idiosyncratic discourse-pragmatic features of diverse languages, discourses and genres. The contributions are representative of the work on evidentiality and epistemic modality in a substantial number of countries.

Free Download Mood and Modality (2nd Edition) by F. R. Palmer
English | 2001 | ISBN: 0521800358 | 260 Pages | PDF | 5.3 MB
Since the publication of F. R. Palmer’s Mood and Modality in 1986, when the topic of "modality" was fairly unfamiliar, there has been considerable interest in the subject as well as in grammatical typology in general.

Free Download Eleni Staraki, "Modality in Modern Greek"
English | ISBN: 1443816965 | 2017 | 220 pages | PDF | 899 KB

Free Download Otávio Bueno, "The Routledge Handbook of Modality "
English | ISBN: 1138823317 | 2020 | 416 pages | EPUB | 14 MB
Modality – the question of what is possible and what is necessary – is a fundamental area of philosophy and philosophical research. The Routledge Handbook of Modality is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems and debates in this exciting subject and is the first collection of its kind. Comprising thirty-five chapters by a team of international contributors the Handbook is divided into seven clear parts:

Free Download Yitzhak Y. Melamed, "Modality: A History "
English | ISBN: 0190089865 | 2024 | 360 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 19 MB
Modality: A History provides readers a sweeping study of the history of philosophical work on modal concepts. Everyday discourse is saturated with appeals to what might be the case or to what must be true or to what cannot happen. Possibility, necessity, and impossibility are modal terms, and philosophers have long wondered how to best understand them. This volume traces the history of some of the most prominent and important contributions to our understanding of possibility and necessity over the past two and half millennia of western philosophy, from ancient Greek philosophers through current debates in the 21st century.

Free Download Paul Portner, "Modality (Oxford Surveys in Semantics and Pragmatics)"
English | 2009 | pages: 301 | ISBN: 0199292434, 0199292426 | PDF | 10,6 mb
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.