This book is an introduction to the relationship between the morphosyntactic properties of
sentences and their associated illocutionary forces or force potentials. The volume begins …

In Corpus Linguistics and Sociolinguistics, Beke Hansen analyses variation and change in
the modal systems of three second-language varieties of English in Asia by taking a …

The present article examines the claim in the literature that the negative first principle, ie the
preference for the order negation-verb to verb-negation, is stronger in negative imperatives …

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 …

One of the possible ways of expressing possibility in affirmative sentences in Slovenian is
with a modal adverb that combines with a finite verb. Under negation, a modal auxiliary must …

The research aims to explore constructed languages as semantic and semiotic systems by
analyzing various types of languages based on their lexical, syntactic, morphological and …

Mon mémoire d'HDR interroge la relation entre temps, modalité et évidentialité dans les
«temps verbaux». En effet, s' il est admis que ces formes peuvent exprimer la localisation …

This thesis aims to investigate the interaction between complex morphology and complex
phonology in the languages of the Caucasus. The Caucasus is well-known for containing …

This thesis examines the inventory of morphemes Sumerian utilizes to denote modal notions
on the verb. Sumerian is an agglutinative linguistic isolate that was spoken in southern …

This study uses the corpus-based contrastive approach to explore the syntactic patterns and
semantic and pragmatic meanings of modal adverbs of certainty (MACs) in English and …