In:Re-Assessing Modalising Expressions: Categories, co-text, and context
Edited by Pascal Hohaus and Rainer Schulze
[Studies in Language Companion Series 216] 2020
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 12 November 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.216.toc
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Table of contents
Chapter 1.Modalising expressions and modality. An overview of trends and challenges.
Rainer Schulze
Pascal Hohaus
Section I.Moving to modal categories: Contesting categorical boundaries
Chapter 2.Revisiting global and intra-categorial frequency shifts in the English modals. A
usage-based, constructionist view on the heterogeneity of modal development
Robert Daugs
Chapter 3.The scope of modal categories: An empirical study
Heiko Narrog
Chapter 4.Not just frequency, not just modality: Production and perception of English
semi-modals
David Lorenz
David Tizón-Couto
Chapter 5.How and why seem became an evidential
Günther Lampert
Section II.Moving to modal co-text: Beyond phrase and clause units
Chapter 6.Conditionals, modality, and Schrödinger’s cat: Conditionals as a family of
linguistic qubits
Costas Gabrielatos
Chapter 7.Modal marking in conditionals. Grammar, usage and discourse
Heiko Narrog
Chapter 8.Present-day English constructions with chance(s)
in Talmy’s greater modal system and beyond
An Van linden
Lieselotte Brems
Section III.Moving to modal context: Register, genre and text type
Chapter 9.A genre-based analysis of evaluative modality in multi-verb sequences in
English
Noriko Matsumoto
Chapter 10.Epistemic modals in academic English: A contrastive study of engineering, medicine
and linguistics research papers
María Luisa Carrió-Pastor
Chapter 11.On the (con)textual properties of must, have to
and shall: An integrative account
Grégory Furmaniak
Chapter 12.“The future elected government should fully represent the interests of Hong Kong
people”: Diachronic change in the use of modalising expressions in Hong Kong English
between 1928 and 2018
Carolin Biewer
Lisa Lehnen
Ninja Schulz
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