Modality in English: Theory and Description

by Johan van der Auwera and Pierre Busuttil

This volume presents two kinds of studies on English modality.

On the one hand, there are strongly empirical, corpus-based studies of individual uses of English modal auxiliaries and modal constructions, such as may in interrogatives, might in concessive clauses, shall and may vs must in legal English, the use of surprised if and surprising if constructions, the use and history of adhortative constructions, or the modal-aspectual use of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110196344
• ISBN13: 9783110196344
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
• Length: 390 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.3"