: Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen, Karin Aijmer
: The Semantic Field of Modal Certainty A Corpus-Based Study of English Adverbs
: De Gruyter Mouton
: 9783110198928
: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]ISSN
: 1
: CHF 159.40
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: "Deutsche Sprachwissenschaft; Deutschsprachige Literaturwissen- schaft"
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This book provides a detailed account of the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic properties of modal adverbs of certainty in present-day English. Methodologically it relies on three types of data: monolingual corpora, translation corpora and informant testing. It is the first study in which the semantic field of certainty as realised by English adverbs is explored.


Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen, Ghent University, Belgium;Karin Aijmer, Göteborg University, Sweden.
Frontmatter1
Table of contents7
Chapter 1. Aims, methodology and data11
Chapter 2. Establishing meaning relations: Problems and solutions20
Chapter 3. The linguistic categories of modality and evidentiality34
Chapter 4. An integrated model for describing adverbs of certainty50
Chapter 5. Classification of adverbs of certainty67
Chapter 6. The epistemic certainty adverbs certainly, definitely, indeed: Syntagmatic and paradigmatic dimensions90
Chapter 7. The epistemic certainty adverbs no doubt, surely: Syntagmatic and paradigmatic dimensions131
Chapter 8. Evidential, expectation and speech act adverbs: Syntagmatic and paradigmatic dimensions157
Chapter 9. Adverbs of certainty and the wider context: Text types and genres205
Chapter 10. Semantic-pragmatic relations: Networks and maps257
Chapter 11. Semantic-pragmatic relations: Parameters and features288
Chapter 12. Conclusions331
Backmatter335