Mood and Modality

by Frank Robert Palmer and F.R. Palmer

Book Overview

Since the publication of F. R. Palmer's Mood and Modality in 1986, when the topic of modality was fairly unfamiliar, there has been considerable interest in the subject as well as in grammatical typology in general. Modality is concerned with mood (subjunctive etc.) and with modal markers such as English modal verbs (can, may, must etc.) and is treated as a single grammatical category found in most of the languages of the world. Palmer investigates...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521804795
• ISBN13: 9780521804790
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"