Mood and modality
This work is a systematic and principled description, across a wide variety of languages, of what can be considered a single grammatical category. It compares and contrasts the ways in which modality is grammaticalized, its various functions, and its relation to other grammatical categories.
Print Book, English, 1986
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [Cambridgeshire], 1986
xii, 243 pages ; 24 cm.
9780521265164, 9780521319300, 0521265169, 0521319307
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Machine derived contents note: Notation
1. Introduction
2. Epistemic modality
3. Deontic modality
4. Complement clauses
5. Oblique clauses
6. Modality and other categories
References and citation index
Language index
General index
Includes indexes