Modality in Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics

Werner Abraham is Professor Emeritus in Linguistics and Mediaeval Studies at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands, Honorary Professor at the Universität Wien, and is still active at the Ludwig Maximilan University of Munich, Germany. He is author of more than 350 articles, 5 monographs, and 35 book collections.

• Part I. Modes of Modality: Introduction; 1. Pragmatics: modality and speaker orientation; 2. (Inter) subjectification and foreign consciousness alignment; 3. Modality as distance – from aspect to modality; Part II. Verbal Modality: 4. The syntax-semantic-pragmatic interface of modal verbs; 5. The perspectival specifics of verb modality in German; 6. The syntax of modal verbs in German, Dutch, and English; 7. Modal verb semantics; Part III. Adverbial Modality Distance: From Apect to Mpp: 8. Modal particles: the enigmatic category; 9. The attitudinal force of modal particles; 10. Modal particles between context, conversation, and convention; 11. Modal particles outside of finiteness; Part IV. Covert Modality: 12. Covert patterns of modality.

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