Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality in Spanish (Semi-)Auxiliaries: A Cognitive-Functional Approach

by Bert Cornillie and Bert

This volume presents a systematic and comprehensive analysis of the Spanish evidential semi-auxiliaries parecer and resultar, the modal constructions with amenazar and prometer, and the modal auxiliaries poder, deber and tener que. These verbs have never been considered together in a global approach that transcends the classical "verbal periphrases" model.

The book proposes a cognitive-functional account of evidentiality and modality in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 311018611X
• ISBN13: 9783110186116
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary