Modality, Subjectivity, and Semantic Change: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective

by Heiko Narrog

This book is a cross-linguistic exploration of semantic and functional change in modal markers. Its approach is broadly functional typological but makes frequent reference to work in formal semantics by scholars such as Angelika Kratzer and Paul Portner. The author starts by considering what modality is and how it relates to and differs from subjectivity. He argues that modality cannot be defined in terms of subjectivity: both concepts are independent...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199694370
• ISBN13: 9780199694372
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"