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The Semantics of the Modal Auxiliaries: Grammar) (Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics, 25, Band 25) - Softcover

Coates, Jennifer

 
9781138989986: The Semantics of the Modal Auxiliaries: Grammar) (Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics, 25, Band 25)

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The analysis of a corpus of a 'real' language brings the analyst face-to-face with a problem which has frequently been avoided or ignored in theoretical semantics: language is not an orderly phenomenon, and, as far as meaning is concerned, indeterminacy seems to be a feature of all languages. But it is one thing to recognise the existence of indeterminacy, and another to deal with it adequately. Semantic analysis conventionally consists in distinguishing one meaning from another, in recognising discrete categories, but the acknowledgement of indeterminacy explicitly denies the existence of such discrete categories. This book examines in detail this problem and its relationship to a study of modals.

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