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deontic modality

[Subentry of deontic, (logical) modality]

Fr    modalité déontique

Related term(s): alethic modality, epistemic modality

Domain: Logic, Semantics

Source(s):

Crystal 2003: 130

CRYSTAL, David. (2003) A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics, 5^th Ed Oxford: Blackwell.

Ducrot & Todorov 1979[trans.]: 315

DUCROT, Oswald and TODOROV, Tzvetan. (1979 [trans.]) Encyclopedic Dictionary of the  Sciences of Language. Trans. by Catherine Porter. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 

ELL: 2516

The Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics. (1994) Oxford: Pergamon Press.

Kroeger 2005: 166

KROEGER, Paul R. (2005) Analyzing Grammar: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Levinson 1983: 192

LEVINSON, Stephen C. (1983) Pragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.  (PR)

Lyons 1977: 823-824 (also "deontically modalized")

LYONS, John. (1977) Semantics. Vols. 1 & 2. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. (SM)

Quirk etal. 1985: 220 (note)

QUIRK, Randolph, GREENBAUM, Sidney, LEECH, Geoffrey, & SVARTNIK, Jan. (1985) A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. London: Longman.

Trask 1993: 76

TRASK, R. L. (1993) A Dictionary of Grammatical Terms in Linguistics. New York: Routledge.

Wales 1989: 302

WALES, Katie. (1989) A Dictionary of Stylistics. London: Longman. 

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