De Gruyter Mouton The Semantic Field of Modal Certainty: A Corpus-Based Study of English Adverbs: 56 (Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL], 56)

Product Description 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. Review There is no doubt that this book will inspire similar studies in the domain of modality and in other domains. Ilse Depraetere in: Journal of English Language and Linguistics 3/2009 About the Author Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen, Ghent University, Belgium; Karin Aijmer, Göteborg University, Sweden.