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The Semantic Field of Modal Certainty a Corpus-Based Study of English Adverbs

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, and no doubt, are examined from the point of view of their syntactic, semantic and pragmatic characteristics. The corpus used is the International C.

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  • "Review text: "There is no doubt that this book will inspire similar studies in the domain of modality and in other domains."Ilse Depraetere in: Journal of English Language and Linguistics 3/2009?<"
  • "Provides an account of the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic properties of modal adverbs of certainty in English. This book relies on three types of data: monolingual corpora, translation corpora and informant testing. It explores the semantic field of certainty as realised by English adverbs."
  • "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, and no doubt, are examined from the point of view of their syntactic, semantic and pragmatic characteristics. The corpus used is the International C."@en

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  • "The Semantic Field of Modal Certainty a Corpus-Based Study of English Adverbs"@en
  • "The semantic field of modal certainty a corpus-based study of English adverbs"@en
  • "The semantic field of modal certainty a corpus-based study of English adverbs"
  • "The semantic field of modal certainty : a corpus-based study of English adverbs"

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