MOOD AND MODALITY by F. R. Palmer ( 9780521800358 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

Item Details

Title:

MOOD AND MODALITY

By:

F. R. Palmer

Format:

Hardback

List price:

£89.99

Our price:

£78.74

Discount:

12.5% off

You save:

£11.25

ISBN 10:

0521800358

ISBN 13:

9780521800358

Availability:

Usually dispatched within 1-3 weeks.

Delivery rates

Stock:

Currently 0 available

Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

23 April, 2001

Edition:

2nd Revised edition

Series:

Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics

Pages:

260

Description:

Palmer investigates the category of modality, drawing on a wealth of examples from a wide variety of languages.

Synopsis:

Since the publication of F. R. Palmer's first edition of Mood and Modality in 1986, when the topic of 'modality' was fairly unfamiliar, there has been considerable interest in the subject as well as in grammatical typology in general. Modality is concerned with mood (subjunctive etc.) and with modal markers such as English modal verbs (can, may, must etc.) and is treated as a single grammatical category found in most of the languages of the world. In his investigation of this category, Palmer draws on a wealth of examples from a wide variety of languages. He discusses in detail familiar features in a number of mainly European languages, and also looks at less familiar features including 'evidential' systems and the contrast of realis/irrealis, both to be found in unrelated languages.

Publication:

Imprint:

Cambridge University Press

Returns:

Returnable

Some other items by this author:

GRAMMAR AND MEANING

GRAMMAR AND MEANING (HB)

GRAMMAR AND MEANING (PB)

GRAMMATICAL ROLES AND RELATIONS (PB)

MODALITY AND THE ENGLISH MODALS