English Modality: Core, Periphery and Evidentiality

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by  Juana I. Marín-Arrese (ed.), Marta Carretero (ed.), Jorge Arús Hita (ed.), Johan van der Auwera (ed.)

Marín-Arrese,Carretero,ArúsHita,vanderAuwera(Eds.)
EnglishModality
Topics in English Linguistics
Edited by
Elizabeth Closs Traugott
Bernd Kortmann
Volume 81
English Modality
Core, Periphery and Evidentiality
Edited by
Juana I. Marín-Arrese
Marta Carretero
Jorge Arús Hita
Johan van der Auwera
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Acknowledgments
We would like to thank Ronald Langacker, Geoffrey Leech and Anne-Marie
Simon-Vandenbergen for their contributions to this volume, based on their
plenariesatthe“4thModalityinEnglishConference”(ModE4),UniversidadCom-
plutense de Madrid, September 9-11, 2010. We would also like to express our
gratitude to our invited contributors: our thanks to Bas Aarts, Jill Bowie, Frank
Brisard, Peter Collins, Roberta Facchinetti, Dirk Noël, An Van linden, Sean
Wallis and Astrid De Wit,who generously agreed to contribute to this volume.
We are grateful to the authors of the remaining articles in the volume, all peer-
reviewedextendedversionsoftheirpaperspresentedatModE4.
We owe our gratitude to the general editors of the series“Topics inEnglish
Linguistics”, Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Bernd Kortmann, for their interest in
the topic of the present volume and their support.We also thank the staff at
Mouton De Gruyter, and especially Julie Miess and Wolfgang Konwitschny, for
theirprofessionalhelpandtheirpatienceinguidingusthroughtheeditingand
proofreadingprocessandindealingwithallthetechnicalintricacies.
Finally, thanks are due to the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Spanish
Ministry of Science and Innovation) for the grant awarded for the organization
of ModE4 (FFI2009-08190-E), which contributed decisively to the quality of
the conference, much to the benefit of most of the research presented in this
volume.
Modality is a thriving area of linguistics, with a long tradition of studies
from different approaches. The unifying thread of this volume is modality in
English,which is approached from diverse perspectives.The volume addresses
issuessuchastheconceptualnatureofmodality,andtheevolutionandcurrent
status of the modal auxiliaries and other modal expressions. It also attempts to
shednewlightontherelationshipbetweenthedomainsofmodalityandeviden-
tiality, and with neighbouringgrammatical categories, such as TAM systems. In
addition,thevolumeexaminestheuseofmodalandevidentialexpressionsand
the variation whereof in different discourse domains and genres, in the model-
lingofdiscourseidentities,andintheexpressionofstanceandevaluation.

Table of contents
Acknowledgements v
Listofcontributors ix
PartI:Coremodality
RonaldLangacker
Modals:Strivingforcontrol 3
JillBowie,SeanWallisandBasAarts
ContemporarychangeinmodalusageinspokenBritishEnglish:mappingthe
impactof“genre” 57
GeoffreyLeech
Wherehaveallthemodalsgone?Anessayonthedecliningfrequencyofcore
modalauxiliariesinrecentstandardEnglish 95
PartII:Peripheralmodality
JohanvanderAuwera,DirkNoëlandAnVanlinden
Hadbetter,’dbetterandbetter:Diachronicandtransatlanticvariation 119
PeterCollins
GrammaticalcolloquialismandtheEnglishquasi-modals:acomparative
study 155
LucíaLoureiro-Porto
ModalnecessityandimpersonalityinEnglishandGalician 171
FrankBrisardandAstridDeWit
ModalusesoftheEnglishpresentprogressive 201
DebraZiegeler
Onthegenericargumentforthemodalityofwill 221
PartIII:EvidentialityandModality
Anne-MarieSimon-Vandenbergen
REALITYandrelatedconcepts:towardsasemantic-pragmaticmapof
Englishadverbs 253
viii TableofContents
AurelijaUsonienėandJolantaŠinkūnienė
Across-linguisticlookatthemultifunctionalityoftheEnglishverbseem 281
MartaCarreteroandJuanRafaelZamorano-Mansilla
AnnotatingEnglishadverbialsforthecategoriesofepistemicmodalityand
evidentiality 317
PartIV:EvidentialityandModalityinDiscourse
RobertaFacchinetti
Modalverbsinnews-relatedblogs:Whenthebloggercounts 359
LauraHidalgoDowningandBegoñaNúñezPerucha
Modalityandpersonalpronounsasindexicalmarkersofstance:Intersubjective
positioningandconstructionofpublicidentityinmediainterviews 379
JuanaI.Marín-Arrese
Stancetakingandinter/subjectivityintheIraqInquiry:Blairvs.Brown 411
Subjectindex 447
List of Contributors
BasAarts DirkNoël
UniversityCollegeLondon UniversityofHongKong
London,UK HongKong,China
JillBowie BegoñaNúñezPerucha
UniversityCollegeLondon UniversidadComplutensedeMadrid
London,UK Madrid,Spain
FrankBrisard Anne-MarieSimon-Vandenbergen
UniversityofAntwerp GhentUniversity
Antwerp,Belgium Ghent,Belgium
MartaCarretero JolantaŠinkūnienė
UniversidadComplutensedeMadrid
VilniusUniversity
Madrid,Spain
Vilnius,Lithuania
PeterCollins
AurelijaUsonienė
UniversityofNewSouthWales
VilniusUniversity
Sydney,Australia
Vilnius,Lithuania
RobertaFacchinetti
JohanvanderAuwera
UniversityofVerona
UniversityofAntwerp
Verona,Italy
Antwerp,Belgium
LauraHidalgoDowning
UniversidadAutónomadeMadrid AnVanlinden
UniversityofLeuven
Madrid,Spain
Leuven,Belgium
RonaldLangacker
UniversityofCaliforniaatSanDiego SeanWallis
LaJolla,U.S.A. UniversityCollegeLondon
London,UK
GeoffreyLeech
LancasterUniversity AstridDeWit
Lancaster,UK UniversityofAntwerp
Antwerp,Belgium
LucíaLoureiro-Porto
UniversitatdelesIllesBalears
JuanRafaelZamorano-Mansilla
PalmadeMallorca,Spain UniversidadComplutensedeMadrid
Madrid,Spain
JuanaI.Marín-Arrese
UniversidadComplutensedeMadrid
DebraZiegeler
Madrid,Spain
UniversitéSorbonne-NouvelleParis3
Paris,France