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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 June 2012
      16 April 2001
      ISBN:
      9781139167178
      9780521800358
      9780521804790
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139167178
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.535kg, 260 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.423kg, 260 Pages
      • Series:
      Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
      Subjects:
      English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Language and Linguistics, Semantics and Pragmatics
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    Series:
    Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
    Subjects:
    English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Language and Linguistics, Semantics and Pragmatics
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    Since the publication of F. R. Palmer's first edition of 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. Modality is concerned with mood (subjunctive etc.) and with modal markers such as English modal verbs (can, may, must etc.) and is treated as a single grammatical category found in most of the languages of the world. In his investigation of this category, Palmer draws on a wealth of examples from a wide variety of languages. He discusses in detail familiar features in a number of mainly European languages, and also looks at less familiar features including 'evidential' systems and the contrast of realis/irrealis, both to be found in unrelated languages.

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    ‘These are complex areas … and as a basic guide to the problems and the terminology in the field this is a valuable book.’

    Raphael Salkie Source: MLR

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