Semantic field of modal certainty, the: a corpus-based study of english adverbs
Auteur :
Simon-Vandenbergen, Anne-Marie / Aijmer, Karin
Éditeur :
De Gruyter
ISBN :
9783110196177
Date de publication :
20 nov. 2007
Dimensions :
23,0 x 15,5 cm
Poids :
703 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Allemagne
This book provides a detailed account of the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic properties of modal adverbs of certainty in present-day English. Methodologically it relies on three types of data: monolingual corpora, translation corpora and informant testing.