کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1103435 953740 2009 21 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Subjective modality and tense in Persian
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی علوم انسانی و هنر زبان و زبان شناسی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Subjective modality and tense in Persian
چکیده انگلیسی

The present paper sets out to focus on an aspect of the modal system of Persian which, despite its crucial role in interactive discourse, has not received the treatment it deserves. More precisely, the paper seeks to investigate how the simple past is deployed to express subjective epistemic and deontic modality within a future-oriented framework. This apparent clash between tense and time can be explained in terms of a set of recognition criteria: tense-distinction, interrogation, conditionality and modal harmony. The clash is also explicable pragmatically in that it is heavily context-dependent. In both cases, the underlying assumption is that the modality under consideration is invariably construed as indicating certainty, disbelief, challenge, nonchalance or obligation with respect to a particular state of affairs.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Language Sciences - Volume 31, Issue 6, November 2009, Pages 853–873
نویسندگان
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