The Semantic Field Of Modal Certainty —— A Corpus-Based Study of English Adverbs

----- 情态确定性-基于语料库英语副词研究

ISBN: 9783110196177 出版年：2008 页码：408 Aijmer, Karin Simon-Vandenbergen, Anne-Marie De Gruyter Mouton

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.