TY - BOOK AU - Choi,Soonja AU - Condoravdi,Cleo AU - Eschenroede,Erin AU - Eschenroeder,Erin AU - Frawley,William AU - Harizanov,Valentina AU - Kaufmann,Stefan AU - Mills,Sarah AU - Munro,Pamela AU - Nguyen,Thao AU - Nuyts,Jan AU - Shaffer,Barbara AU - Traugott,Elizabeth AU - Wilcox,Sherman AU - de Haan,Ferdinand TI - The Expression of Modality T2 - The Expression of Cognitive Categories (ECC) SN - 9783110184358 AV - P299.M6 E97 2006eb U1 - 415/.6 22 PY - 2008///] CY - Berlin, Boston : PB - De Gruyter Mouton, KW - Modality (Linguistics) KW - Kognitive Linguistik KW - Modalität (Linguistik) KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General KW - bisacsh KW - Cognitive linguistics KW - modality (linguistics) N1 - restricted access N2 - This book covers the essentials of modality and offers both foundational ideas and cutting edge advances. The book consists of what are essentially tutorials on modality and modal notions, covering definitions of modality, morphosyntactic form, conceptual and logical semantics, historical development, and acquisition. There are also specific chapters on modality in Zapotec and American Sign Language, which show the range of forms that modal notions can take. To assist its tutorial function, the book closes with a comprehensive conceptual outline of all the chapters UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110197570 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110197570 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110197570/original ER -