The Semantic Field of Modal Certainty
Author : A. M. Simon-Vandenbergen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2007
ISBN 10 : 3110196174
Pages : 416 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (11 downloads)
Download The Semantic Field of Modal Certainty PDF Format Full Free by A. M. Simon-Vandenbergen and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2007 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an account of the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic properties of modal adverbs of certainty in English. This book relies on three types of data: monolingual corpora, translation corpora and informant testing. It explores the semantic field of certainty as realised by English adverbs.