Simon-Vandenbergen, Anne-Marie/Karin Aijmer
The Semantic Field of Modal Certainty

A Corpus-Based Study of English Adverbs.

This book provides a detailed account of the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic properties of modal adverbs of certainty in present-day English. Methodologically it relies on three types of data: monolingual corpora, translation corpora and informant testing. It is the first study in which the semantic field of certainty as realised by English adverbs is explored. X,395 Seiten, gebunden (Topics in English Linguistics; Vol. 56/Walter de Gruyter Verlag 2007) leichte Lagerspuren