Modal Meaning in Construction Grammar

Special issue of Constructions and Frames 8:1 (2016)

Editors

Bert Cappelle | Université Lille 3

Ilse Depraetere | Université Lille 3

[Constructions and Frames, 8:1] 2016. vi, 129 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 26 September 2016

https://doi.org/10.1075/cf.8.1

Table of Contents

Introduction
Modal meaning in Construction Grammar Bert Cappelle and Ilse Depraetere	1–6
Articles
Short-circuited interpretations of modal verb constructions: Some evidence from The Simpsons Bert Cappelle and Ilse Depraetere	7–39
On the adequacy of a constructionist approach to modality Anna Wärnsby	40–53
Response to Wärnsby Graeme Trousdale	54–65
Change in modal meanings: Another look at the shifting collocates of may Martin Hilpert	66–85
Response to Hilpert Bert Cappelle and Ilse Depraetere	86–96
Do semantic modal maps have a role in a constructionalization approach to modals? Elizabeth Closs Traugott	97–124
Response to Traugott Alexander Bergs	125–129

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Cappelle, Bert

2017. What’s Pragmatics Doing Outside Constructions?. In Semantics and Pragmatics: Drawing a Line [Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning, 11], ► pp. 115 ff.

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Modal Meaning in Construction Grammar

Special issue of Constructions and Frames 8:1 (2016)

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