The Semantic Field of Modal Certainty: A Corpus-Based Study of English Adverbs (Topics in English Linguistics)
Book Details
Author(s)
Karin Aijmer
Publisher
Mouton de Gruyter
ISBN / ASIN
3110196174
ISBN-13
9783110196177
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#4,947,882
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Description
This book provides a detailed account of the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic properties of modal adverbs of certainty in present-day English. Methodologically it relies on three types of data: monolingual corpora, translation corpora and informant testing. It is the first study in which the semantic field of certainty as realised by English adverbs is explored.
