Re-Assessing Modalising Expressions: Categories, co-text, and context

Re-Assessing Modalising Expressions
Editorial page
Title page
Copyright page
Table of contents
Chapter 1
	Modalising expressions and modality: An overview of trends and challenges
	1. Introduction
	2. Modalising expressions in English as an area of research
	3. Aim of the present volume
	4. Organisation of the present volume
	References
section i
	Moving to modal categories: Contesting categorical boundaries
		chapter 2
			Revisiting global and intra-categorial frequency shifts in the English modals: A usage-based, constructionist view on the heterogeneity of modal development
			1. Introduction
			2. The diachrony of modals: Where we are at so far
			3. Modals and CxG: What are modal constructions?
			4. A response to Leech’s (2011) response to Millar (2009)
			5. What to split and what to lump?
			6. Conclusion
			Acknowledgements
			References
		chapter 3
			The scope of modal categories: An empirical study
			1. 
Goals and scope of this paper
			2. Modality and other categories of the Japanese verb and verbal complex
				2.1 The modal categories
				2.2 Other categories
				2.3 Selection of markers and constructions
				2.4 A note on verbal morphology
			3. The data
			4. Scope analysis
				4.1 No combination
				4.2 No scope ambiguity
				4.3 Scope ambiguity obtains
			5. Summary and discussion: The scope of modal categories
			Lists of abbreviations
			Acknowledgments
			References
		chapter 4
			Not just frequency, not just modality: Production and perception of English semi-modals
			1. Introduction
				1.1 Modality, to-infinitives and V-to-Vinf as a modalizing construction
				1.2 The role of co(n)text: Speech-internal vs. speech-external factors
				1.3 Converging evidence: Production and perception
			2. Corpus study: Realizations of frequent V-to-Vinf items in speech
				2.1 
Realizations of have to / used to
					2.1.1 Fricative devoicing
					2.1.2 /t/-lenition
				2.2 Realizations of trying to / need to
			3. Experimental study: Chunking and frequency information in speech perception
				3.1 Design and method
				3.2 Results and interpretation
			4. Synthesis and discussion
				4.1 Not just frequency
				4.2 Not just modality
				4.3 Converging evidence and the role of reanalysis
			5. Conclusion
			Funding
			Acknowledgments
			References
		chapter 5
			How and why seem became an evidential
			1. Introduction
			2. Three research strands of conceptualizing seem
				2.1 An invariable core meaning: Seem between appearance and reality
				2.2 Seem and the hedging paradigm
				2.3 How and why seem turned evidential
			3. Conclusion
			References
section ii
	Moving to modal co-text: Beyond phrase and clause units
		chapter 6
			Conditionals, modality, and Schrödinger’s cat: Conditionals as a family of linguistic qubits
			1. Motivation and aims
			2. The modal nature of conditionals: Considerations
			3. Conditionals as linguistic qubits
			4. Conditionals as qubits: Their function in discourse
				4.1 Classification of conditionals
				4.2 DIR-LK inferential conditionals
				4.3 DIR and IND rhetorical conditionals
				4.4 DIR-LK polar conditionals
				4.5 DIR-DN
				4.6 DIR-DD
				4.7 IND pretext conditionals
				4.8 Conditionals without apodos
			5. Defining the family of conditional constructions
			6. Conclusion
			References
		chapter 7
			Modal marking in conditionals. Grammar, usage and discourse
			1. Introduction
			2. Modality and conditional clauses
			3. Observations and findings in previous research
			4. Data analysis
				4.1 Overall results
				4.2 Pragmatic biases of conditionals with modal marking in the protasis
				4.3 Patterns of usage
			5. Conclusion
			Lists of abbreviations
			Acknowledgments
			References
		chapter 8
			Present-day English constructions with chance(s) in Talmy’s greater modal system and beyond
			1. Introduction
			2. Data and methods
			3. General overview: Tripartite classification
			4. Modalized expressions
				4.1 Types of modal meaning
				4.2 Constructional properties
			5. Expressions of caused modality
				5.1 
Chance and Talmy’s greater modal system
				5.2 Constructional properties
			6. Lexical(ized) expressions
				6.1 Lexical uses: Chance is discourse-primary
				6.2 Lexicalized uses: Chance in complex predicates
				6.3 Lexical uses: Chance meaning ‘coincidence’
				6.4 Regular uses
			7. Conclusion
			Acknowledgements
			Corpus
			References
section iii
	Moving to modal context: Register, genre and text type
		chapter 9
			A genre-based analysis of evaluative modality in multi-verb sequences in English
			1. Introduction
			2. Descriptive and methodological background
				2.1 Working definitions of cotext and context
				2.2 The deictic motion verb go
				2.3 General classification of multi-verb sequences with the first verb go
				2.4 Relation between cotext and context
			3. Four types of multi-verb sequences with the attenuated go
				3.1 The go-to-V sequence
				3.2 The go-Ving sequence
				3.3 The go-and-V sequence
				3.4 The go-V sequence
			4. Quantitative data of the go-and-V sequence
			5. Concluding remarks
			Funding
			Acknowledgments
			References
		chapter 10
			Epistemic modals in academic English: A contrastive study of engineering, medicine and linguistics research papers
				A contrastive study of engineering, medicine and linguistics research papers
					María Luisa Carrió-Pastor
			1. Introduction
			2. Epistemic modality
			3. Modality, academic writing and phraseological patterns
			4. Corpus
			5. Method
			6. Results
				6.1 Expressions and value of epistemic modality
					6.1.1 Modal adverbs
					6.1.2 Modal adjectives
					6.1.3 Phrases/ mental state predicates
					6.1.4 Modal nouns
					6.1.5 Modal auxiliaries
				6.2 Orientation of epistemic modality
					6.2.1 Subjective epistemic modality
					6.2.2 Objective epistemic modality
				6.3 Collocations of typical epistemic modals
			7. Conclusions
			References
		chapter 11
			On the (con)textual properties of must, have to and shall: An integrative account
			1. Introduction
			2. Discourse modes
			3. Modality: Basic concepts
			4. Method
			5. Results and discussion
				5.1 Root must
				5.2 Deontic shall
				5.3 Root have to
			6. Conclusion
			Acknowledgments
			References
			Appendix
		chapter 12
			“The future elected government should fully represent the interests of Hongkong people”: Diachronic change in the use of modalising expressions in Hong Kong English between 1928 and 2018
			1. Introduction
			2. The socio-historical background: History, politics and
genre development
				2.1 History and politics in Hong Kong: The last 90 years
				2.2 Press coverage in Great Britain and Hong Kong from a
historical perspective
			3 Methodology
				3.1 The DC-HKE and its press news reports section
				3.2 Functionality of the core modals would and should
					3.2.1 The functionality of would
					3.2.2 The functionality of should
			4. Results
				4.1 Overall frequencies
				4.2 The functionality of would in the DC-HKE
				4.3 The functionality of should in the DC-HKE
				4.4 Discussion
			5. Conclusion
			References
Index