Modality and mood in Romance : modal interpretation, mood selection, and mood alternation /
Dieser Sammelband enth lt eine Auswahl von Forschungsbeitr gen, die auf dem 30. Deutschen Romanistentag 2007 in Wien innerhalb der Sektion Modus und Modalit t in den romanischen Sprachen vorgestellt wurden. Dieser Titel n
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Publisher Address: | Berlin ;Boston : |
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[2010] ©2011 |
Literature type: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Dieser Sammelband enth lt eine Auswahl von Forschungsbeitr gen, die auf dem 30. Deutschen Romanistentag 2007 in Wien innerhalb der Sektion Modus und Modalit t in den romanischen Sprachen vorgestellt wurden. Dieser Titel n This collective volume contains a selection of research contributions, presented at the 30th Deutscher Romanistentag [German Conference on Romance languages and literatures] in 2007 in Vienna in the section Mood and Modality in Romance . The Romance languages studied here include Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Catalan and French. All contributions thematically explore the status and importance of modality and mood and their reciprocal relationships with reference to theoretical approaches. |
Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (251pages). |
ISBN: | 9783110234343 |
Index Number: | PC228 |
CLC: | H77 |
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Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Modality and Mood in Romance: An introduction -- I. Modal interpretation -- Modal readings of sentence connectives in German and Portuguese -- Modal uses of the Italian imperfetto and the Spanish imperfecto: a comparison -- Modal non-finite relatives in Romance -- Epistemic modality and evidentiality and their definition on a deictic basis -- Where mood, modality and illocution meet: the morphosyntax of Romance conjectures -- II. Mood selection and mood alternation -- Modality, context change potential and mood selection in European Portuguese -- On the (un)stability of mood distribution in Romance -- Grammaticalization and language comparison in the Romance mood system -- Principles of mood change in evaluative contexts: the case of French -- Backmatter |