English modality : core, periphery and evidentiality / edited by Juana I. Marín-Arrese [and three others].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Modals : striving for control / Ronald Langacker -- Contemporary change in modal usage in spoken British English : mapping the impact of "genre" / Jill Bowie, Sean Wallis and Bas Aarts -- Where have all the modals gone? : an essay on the declining frequency of core modal auxiliaries in recent standard English / Geoffrey Leech -- Had better, 'd better and better : diachronic and transatlantic variation / Johan van der Auwera, Dirk Noël and An van Linden -- Grammatical colloquialism and the English quasi-modals : a comparative study / Peter Collins -- Modal necessity and impersonality in English and Galician / Lucía Loureiro-Porto -- Modal uses of the English present progressive / Frank Brisard and Astrid De Wit -- On the generic argument for the modality of will / Debra Ziegeler -- Reality and related concepts : towards a semantic-pragmatic map of English adverbs / Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen -- A cross-linguistic look at the multifunctionality of the English verb seem / Aurelija Usoniené and Jolanta Šinkūnienė -- Annotating English adverbials for the categories of epistemic modality and evidentiality / Marta Carretero and Juan Rafael Zamorano-Mansilla -- Modal verbs in news-related blogs : when the blogger counts / Roberta Facchinetti -- Modality and personal pronouns as indexical markers of stance : intersubjective positioning and construction of public identity in media interviews / Laura Hidalgo Downing and Begoñia Núñez Perucha -- Stancetaking and inter/subjectivity in the Iraq inquiry : Blair vs. Brown / Juana I. Marín-Arrese.

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