modality

Thinking Modally: English and Contrastive Studies on Modality

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Thinking Modally: English and Contrastive Studies on Modality This quantity brings collectively a number of the papers offered on the 4th Worldwide Convention on Modality in English, held in Madrid on 911 September 2010. The ebook is split into two components, with the primary encompassing contributions focusing on the notions of modality. evidentiality and temporality, …

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Modality and Structure in Signed and Spoken Languages

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Signed languages are the naturally-evolved visual-gestural languages of deaf communities. The realization that they are true languages is one of the great discoveries of the last thirty years of linguistic research. This book examines the linguistic properties of many, including detailed case studies of Hong Kong, British, Mexican and German signed languages. The contributors focus …

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