Postmodality and the life cycles of modal expressions (2022 - CRISCO)
Description
This conference focusses on the late stages in the evolution of modal items, namely the transition from modal to postmodal domain, demodalization, the internal structure of the postmodal category and the possible remodalization cycles.
Conférence
Mirative extensions in the postmodal domain
The aim of this paper is to offer a semantic-pragmatic account of the postmodal uses of should and would. Arguably, should and would are related to the postmodal domain in so far as both modal
Modal meanings become discourse-oriented
Van der Auwera and Plungian’s (1998) map of possibility and necessity paths offers a re-arrangement of Bybee et al. (1994)’s data on grammaticalization paths in the domain of modality along two