Epistemic Modality, Language, and Conceptualization: a cognitive-pragmatic perspective. [SERIES]: Human Cognitive Processing - Volume 5.

RARE monograph on the relationship between language and conceptualization by experimental investigation of the major types of expressions of epistemic modality in Dutch, German and English. The author, Jan Nuyts, is Professor of Dutch and General Linguistics at the Department of Linguistics of the University of Antwerp, Belgium. 225x155mm. XX+428 pages. Hardcover. Front cover and spine edges slightly bumped. Previous owner`s small stamp on front whitepage upper corner. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare book, of interest both to scholars working on modality and related semantic dimensions, and to the interdisciplinary field of researchers concerned with the cognitive systems involved in language use, is in very good condition. The book is in : English.