Van Linden, An
Modal Adjectives
English Deontic and Evaluative Constructions in Diachrony and Synchrony
Series:Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] 75
Table of Contents
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Table of contents
- List of tables
- List of figures
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. The notion of modality
- Chapter 2. Adjectives in the modal-evaluative domain
- Chapter 3. Data and methods of the diachronic analysis
- Chapter 4. The semantic development of the adjectival matrix
- Chapter 5. The diachrony of the clausal complement patterns
- Chapter 6. The diachrony of the complex constructions: The development of propositional complements
- Chapter 7. Data and methods of the synchronic synthesis and refinement
- Chapter 8. Synchronic constructions: Refinements of the conceptual map
- Chapter 9. Conclusion
- References
- Author index
- Subject index
Subject index
Citation Information
Modal Adjectives
English Deontic and Evaluative Constructions in Diachrony and Synchrony
DE GRUYTER
2012
Pages: 353-364
eBook ISBN: 9783110252941
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