RT Book,_Whole
T1 Revisiting modality: a corpus-based study of epistemic adverbs in Galician
A1 Míguez, Vítor
K1 Functional linguistics
K1 Pragmatics
K1 Romance linguistics
K1 Semantics
K1 Syntax
K1 Theoretical linguistics
AB This book presents the first in-depth investigation of modality in Galician linguistics, offering a theoretical discussion of modal categories and a fine-grained description of epistemic adverbs. The first half of the monograph deconstructs the most relevant approaches to modal categories and shows how the traditional concept of modality is a problematic notion, how it relates to other concepts such as evidentiality and mitigation, and how it ought to be conceived of in order to become a more useful instrument for linguistic analysis. A new way of understanding modality is explored and illustrated through Galician examples. The second half of the book zooms in on six epistemic adverbs, which are exhaustively studied from both a formal and a functional perspective. Combining a quantitative and a qualitative perspective, the book shows that adverbs make up a rich semantic scale and establishes several factors that condition their occurrence in discourse, challenging previous conceptions of this grammatical domain.
PB John Benjamins
SN 978-90-272-1473-7
SN 2213-3887
YR 2024
FD 2024-03-23
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/33420
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/33420
LA eng
NO Míguez, V. (2024). Revisiting modality: A corpus-based study of epistemic adverbs in Galician. John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.40
DS Minerva
RD 23 abr 2026