The Semantic Field of Modal Certainty

by Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen and Karin Aijmer

In spite of the vast literature on modality in English, very little research has been done on modal adverbs as a group. While there are studies of individual adverbs, the semantic and pragmatic relations between them have been left largely unexplored. This book takes a close look at the whole field of modal certainty as expressed by adverbs in English. On the basis of corpus data the most frequent adverbs of certainty, including certainly, indeed,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110196174
• ISBN13: 9783110196177
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
• Length: 405 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary