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This book covers the essentials of modality and offers both foundational ideas and cutting edge advances. The book consists of what are essentially tutorials on modality and modal notions, covering definitions of modality, morphosyntactic form, conceptual and logical semantics, historical development, and acquisition. There are also specific chapters on modality in Zapotec and American Sign Language, which show the range of forms that modal notions can take. To assist its tutorial function, the book closes with a comprehensive conceptual outline of all the chapters.Key features:textbook covers the essentials of modality Well-known editor Cognitive categories are currently among the most important areas of research in linguistics and beyond (biology, psychology)

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Author:   William Frawley ,  Erin Eschenroeder ,  Sarah Mills ,  Thao Nguyen
Publisher:   De Gruyter
Imprint:   De Gruyter Mouton
Edition:   annotated edition
Volume:   1
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.180kg
ISBN:  

9783110184365

ISBN 10:   3110184362
Pages:   275
Publication Date:   30 August 2006
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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This attribute of EM, together with the quality of all the contributions, make the book a must for beginning researchers on modality, and highly recommendable for more experienced lecturers and researchers concerned with this aera. Marta Carretero in: Functions of Language 1/2008 Der Herausgeber dieses Bandes hat in der neu konzipierten Reihe ber den Ausdruck kognitiver Kategorien die Messlatte recht hoch gelegt. Ralf Klabunde in: Zeitschrift f r Sprachwissenschaft 26/2007 Eine sch ne bersicht zum Einstieg. Werner Abraham in: Germanistik 1-2/2007

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William Frawley, University of Delaware, USA.

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