Building Modality with Syntax by Camille Denizot, Liana Tronci - 9783112214077

Building Modality with SyntaxFocus on Ancient Greek\nAuthor(s): Camille Denizot, Liana Tronci\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: De Gruyter, Germany\nImprint: De Gruyter Mouton\nISBN-13: 9783112214077, 978-3112214077\nSynopsis\nDespite the intensive research carried out in recent years, modality remains an intriguing and challenging issue in linguistics. This book investigates modality from a syntactic viewpoint and with a bottom-up approach. A strong focus of the book is the interaction between the different linguistic tools that build modality (moods, modal verbs, modal adverbs, etc.), taking both the role of syntactic structure and the compositionality of modal meanings into account. The volume comprises corpus-based studies devoted to several syntactic aspects of modality in Ancient Greek, within different theoretical frameworks. The chapters shed new light on different modal categories ([url] epistemicity, possibility, counterfactuality, evidentiality, subjectivity) and show how the.