Evidentiality and modality in european languages: discourse-pragmatic perspectives
Éditeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
ISBN :
9783034324373
Date de publication :
18 août 2017
Poids :
790 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Suisse
The volume focuses on discourse-pragmatic studies on evidentiality, epistemic modality, and on deontic modality. It presents studies on the functions and discourse-pragmatic variation of evidential and modal expressions, applying corpus-based methodologies and addressing cross-linguistic issues in several European languages.