Full Description
This handbook offers an in depth and comprehensive state of the art survey of the linguistic domains of modality and mood. An international team of experts in the field examines the full range of methodological and theoretical approaches to the many facets of the phenomena involved. Parts 1 and 2 of the volume present the basic linguistic facts about the systems of modality and mood in the languages of the world, covering the semantics and the expression of different subtypes of modality and mood respectively. The authors also examine the interaction of modality and mood, mutually and with other semantic categories such as aspect, time, negation, and evidentiality. In Part 3, authors discuss the features of the modality and mood systems in five typologically different language groups, while chapters in Part 4 deal with wider perspectives on modality and mood: diachrony, areality, first language acquisition, and sign language. Finally, Part 5 looks at how modality and mood are handled in different theoretical approaches: formal syntax, functional linguistics, cognitive linguistics and construction grammar, and formal semantics.
Contents
The Contributors
1: Jan Nuyts: Surveying Modality and Mood: An introduction
2: Johan van der Auwera and Alfonso Zamorano Aguilar: The History of Modality and Mood
Part I: The Semantics of Modality and Mood
3: Jan Nuyts: Analyses of the Modal Meanings
4: Mario Squartini: Interactions between Modality and Other Semantic Categories
5: Irina Nikolaeva: Analyses of the Semantics of Mood
Part II: The Expression of Modality and Mood
6: Heiko Narrog: The Expression of Non-Epistemic Modal Categories
7: Kasper Boye: The Expression of Epistemic Modality
8: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald: Sentence Types
9: Caterina Mauri and Andrea Sansò: The Linguistic Marking of (Ir)Realis and Subjunctive
10: Andrej Malchukov and Viktor S. Xrakovskij: The Linguistic Interaction of Mood with Modality and Other Categories
Part III: Sketches of Modality and Mood Systems
11: Marianne Mithun: Modality and Mood in Iroquoian
12: Zygmunt Frajzyngier: Modality and Mood in Chadic
13: Hilary Chappell and Alain Peyraube: Modality and Mood in Sinitic
14: Frantisek Lichtenberk: Modality and Mood in Oceanic
15: Daniel Van Olmen and Johan van der Auwera: Modality and Mood in Standard Average European
Part IV: Wider Perspectives on Modality and Mood
16: Debra Ziegeler: The Diachrony of Modality and Mood
17: Björn Hansen and Umberto Ansaldo: Areality in Modality and Mood
18: Maya Hickmann and Dominique Bassano: Modality and Mood in First Language Acquisition
19: Barbara Shaffer and Terry Janzen: Modality and Mood in American Sign Language
Part V: Theoretical Approaches
20: Katrin Axel-Tober and Remus Gergel: Modality and Mood in Formal Syntactic Approaches
21: Karin Aijmer: Modality and Mood in Functional Linguistic Approaches
22: Ronny Boogaart and Egbert Fortuin: Modality and Mood in Cognitive Linguistics and Construction Grammars
23: Magdalena Kaufmann and Stefan Kaufmann: Modality and Mood in Formal Semantics
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