by F. R. Palmer · Cambridge University Press · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9780521319300
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«Mood and Modality» is F. R. Palmer's essay on linguistics, published by Cambridge University Press in paperback (243 pages, in English).
The book studies mood (subjunctive, etc.) and modality (can, may, must) as a single grammatical category. With data from very diverse languages —Amerindian, Australian, Latin, Greek, English— Palmer compares how modality is grammaticalized, its functions and its relation to other categories, and addresses notions such as possibility, necessity, speaker attitude or evidentiality.
Work published in 1986 in the series Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics; includes bibliography (pages 227-235) and indexes.
Reference work for advanced students of linguistics and specialists interested in grammatical typology and modality in different languages.
