Topics in subjectification and modalization
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Topics in subjectification and modalization
（Belgian journal of linguistics, 20 (2006)）
John Benjamins Publishing, c2006
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As of Volume 9 (1994/95) John Benjamins Publishing Company is the official publisher of the Belgian Journal of Linguistics, the annual publication of the Linguistic Society of Belgium. Each volume is topical and includes selected papers from the international meetings organised by the LSB.
This volume on subjectification and modalization sheds new light on two kinds of shifts: (i) the shift from originally lexical reading toward propositional or procedural ones and (ii) the shift from direct speech to various forms of indirect speech. The papers of this volume not only corroborate many of the assumptions and hypotheses on semantic and syntactic change made in the literature, but also uncover the underlying principles that motivate these processes. Five papers discuss the patterns lying behind the grammaticalization and subjectification of adverbs and verbs. Three papers dwell on different ways of reporting or distancing the speaker's own or someone else's discourse and address the issue of how the speaker can make use of tense to modalize the proposition.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction (by Cornillie, Bert)
- 2. Part one - Discourse Markers and Epistemic Expressions
- 3. From Time to Discourse Monitoring:agora and entao in European Portuguese (by Macario Lopes, Ana Cristina)
- 4. Syntactic Determinants of Pragmatic Markers of "Closure" (by Gonzalez Fernandez, Maria Jesus)
- 5. On certainly and zeker (by Byloo, Pieter)
- 6. The relation between Lexical and Epistemic Readings: The Equivalents of promise and threaten in Dutch and German (by Vliegen, Maurice)
- 7. Subjectification of Verbs into Discourse Markers: Semantic-pragmatic Change only? (by Company Company, Concepcion)
- 8. Part two - Tense and Reported Speech
- 9. Tense and Evidentiality in Estonian (by Erelt, Mati)
- 10. Speech or Thought Representation and Subjectification, or on the need to think twice (by Vandelanotte, Lieven)
- 11. Tense and Time in Counterfactual Conditionals (by Declerck, Renaat)
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