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The Oxford Handbook of Modality and Mood Jan Nuyts (Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, University of Antwerp)

The Oxford Handbook of Modality and Mood By Jan Nuyts (Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, University of Antwerp)

The Oxford Handbook of Modality and Mood by Jan Nuyts (Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, University of Antwerp)


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This handbook offers an in depth and comprehensive state of the art survey of the linguistic domains of modality and mood. An international team of experts in the field examine the full range of methodological and theoretical approaches to the many facets of the phenomena involved.

The Oxford Handbook of Modality and Mood Summary

The Oxford Handbook of Modality and Mood by Jan Nuyts (Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, University of Antwerp)

This handbook offers an in depth and comprehensive state of the art survey of the linguistic domains of modality and mood. An international team of experts in the field examines the full range of methodological and theoretical approaches to the many facets of the phenomena involved. Parts 1 and 2 of the volume present the basic linguistic facts about the systems of modality and mood in the languages of the world, covering the semantics and the expression of different subtypes of modality and mood respectively. The authors also examine the interaction of modality and mood, mutually and with other semantic categories such as aspect, time, negation, and evidentiality. In Part 3, authors discuss the features of the modality and mood systems in five typologically different language groups, while chapters in Part 4 deal with wider perspectives on modality and mood: diachrony, areality, first language acquisition, and sign language. Finally, Part 5 looks at how modality and mood are handled in different theoretical approaches: formal syntax, functional linguistics, cognitive linguistics and construction grammar, and formal semantics.

The Oxford Handbook of Modality and Mood Reviews

Overall, The Oxford Handbook of Modality and Mood is a rewarding reading experience, and it will likely remain a highly relevant resource in the years to come. * Cameron Morin, Linguist List *
The range of topics covered in this book is impressive. It gives a most complete overview of the forms and meanings of modality and mood, as well as cross-linguistic perspectives on their synchrony and diachrony. It also offers a number of original angles such as areality, language acquisition, and sign languages. ...the Oxford Handbook of Modality and Mood is a rewarding reading experience, and it will likely remain a highly relevant resource in the years to come. * Cameron Morin, Linguist List *

About Jan Nuyts (Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, University of Antwerp)

Jan Nuyts is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Antwerp. His main research area is cognitive-functional semantics. His current focus of attention concerns the cognitive and functional structure of qualificational categories - and the modal categories in particular - and their linguistic expressions, synchronically and diachronically, and what one can learn from them about human cognition. Johan van der Auwera is Professor of General and English Linguistics at the University of Antwerp, and editor-in-chief of the journal Linguistics. His current research focuses on grammatical semantics and typology (including areal typology and dialectology), with special reference to mood, modality, negation, indefinites, and impersonals.

Table of Contents

The Contributors 1: Jan Nuyts: Surveying Modality and Mood: An introduction 2: Johan van der Auwera and Alfonso Zamorano Aguilar: The History of Modality and Mood Part I: The Semantics of Modality and Mood 3: Jan Nuyts: Analyses of the Modal Meanings 4: Mario Squartini: Interactions between Modality and Other Semantic Categories 5: Irina Nikolaeva: Analyses of the Semantics of Mood Part II: The Expression of Modality and Mood 6: Heiko Narrog: The Expression of Non-Epistemic Modal Categories 7: Kasper Boye: The Expression of Epistemic Modality 8: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald: Sentence Types 9: Caterina Mauri and Andrea Sanso: The Linguistic Marking of (Ir)Realis and Subjunctive 10: Andrej Malchukov and Viktor S. Xrakovskij: The Linguistic Interaction of Mood with Modality and Other Categories Part III: Sketches of Modality and Mood Systems 11: Marianne Mithun: Modality and Mood in Iroquoian 12: Zygmunt Frajzyngier: Modality and Mood in Chadic 13: Hilary Chappell and Alain Peyraube: Modality and Mood in Sinitic 14: Frantisek Lichtenberk: Modality and Mood in Oceanic 15: Daniel Van Olmen and Johan van der Auwera: Modality and Mood in Standard Average European Part IV: Wider Perspectives on Modality and Mood 16: Debra Ziegeler: The Diachrony of Modality and Mood 17: Bjoern Hansen and Umberto Ansaldo: Areality in Modality and Mood 18: Maya Hickmann and Dominique Bassano: Modality and Mood in First Language Acquisition 19: Barbara Shaffer and Terry Janzen: Modality and Mood in American Sign Language Part V: Theoretical Approaches 20: Katrin Axel-Tober and Remus Gergel: Modality and Mood in Formal Syntactic Approaches 21: Karin Aijmer: Modality and Mood in Functional Linguistic Approaches 22: Ronny Boogaart and Egbert Fortuin: Modality and Mood in Cognitive Linguistics and Construction Grammars 23: Magdalena Kaufmann and Stefan Kaufmann: Modality and Mood in Formal Semantics References Person index Languages index Subject index

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NLS9780198826781
9780198826781
0198826788
The Oxford Handbook of Modality and Mood by Jan Nuyts (Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, University of Antwerp)
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Oxford University Press
2018-11-30
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