The development of modality in language acquisition
Defined as a general inner-linguistic function, modality pervades language and there can thus be no strictly nonmodal predicative expressions. We shall, however, in what follows, keep to grammatical tradition and exclude declarative and interrogative sentences in the indicative mood from consideration. Although a thorough study of the development of modal negation should prove most rewarding, we must renounce such an attempt out of space limits. […] [W]e shall be concerned with the formal linguistic devices employed by the child for expressing modality in various languages and the functions these serve, i.e. how they are used. Only by the conjoint study of form and function can one hope to arrive at a fair understanding of how the modalizing function develops in the ontogenesis of language.
| Author: | Ursula Stephany |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-245222 |
| ISSN: | 1615-1496 |
| Series (Serial Number) | Arbeitspapier / Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Köln (A.F. 43) |
| Publisher: | Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Institut für Linguistik, Universität zu Köln |
| Place of publication: | Köln |
| Document Type: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 1983 |
| Publishing Institution: | Univ.-Bibliothek Frankfurt am Main |
| SWD-Keyword: | Modalität <Linguistik>; Spracherwerb |
| Pagenumber: | 66 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 410 Linguistik |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Spracherwerb / Language acquisition |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: Semantik / Semantics | |
| Licence (German): |  Veröffentlichungsvertrag für Publikationen ohne Print on Demand |
