An van Linden

Modal Adjectives (eBook, PDF)

English Deontic and Evaluative Constructions in Diachrony and Synchrony

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The book revisits the notion of deontic modality from the perspective of an understudied category in the modal domain, viz. adjectives. It analyses extraposition constructions with English adjectives like essential and appropriate, and uses this to refine traditional definitions of deontic modality. Together with dynamic and evaluative meanings, this category is integrated into a conceptual map, for which diachronic and synchronic evidence is adduced.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: De Gruyter
• Seitenzahl: 383
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783110252941
• Artikelnr.: 44418061

Autorenporträt

An Van linden, University of Leuven, Belgium.

Rezensionen

"[...] this is a valuable addition to the field of historical semantics and to the literature on modality. It is a useful, detailed, clearly written volume. Van linden's approach is solidly empirical, and her data lead to a focused and cohesive conceptual map of adjectival modality and evaluation. This book is highly recommended to researchers with an interest in historical linguistics as well as to those studying adjectival semantics."
James A. Berry in: Linguist List 23.5148