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1 online resource (xiv, 332 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Topics in English linguistics ; 32 |
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Topics in English linguistics ; 32.
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Subject-matter and central claims -- Emerging modals and emergent grammar -- Theoretical, methodological and empirical foundations -- Functionalism, economy, frequency -- Grammaticalization -- Early proponents of grammaticalization theory -- The Cologne project: Lehmann, Heine and associates -- Recent developments -- Contact-induced change and sociolinguistic dialectology -- A corpus-based approach -- Scope and aims -- The sources of the present study -- Historical corpora -- Corpora of contemporary English -- Defining modality and auxiliarihood -- Properties of English auxiliaries and modals -- The relevance of the history of English central modals to the study of emerging modals -- Previous research on emerging modals -- Largely descriptive approaches -- The contraction debate -- Have Got to/Gotta and Have to/Hafta -- History and grammatical (re- )analysis -- Have to -- Have Got to -- Increase in discourse frequency -- Long-term trends: Archer -- Short-term trends -- Syntax and semantics of Have to and Have Got to -- Mechanisms of grammaticalization -- Present-day properties -- Stylistic variation -- Regional variation -- Want to and Wanna -- The rise of Want: Increase in discourse frequency and changing patterns of complementation -- Old and Middle English: From impersonal to transitive use -- Early Modern and Modern English -- Present-day English -- Semantic developments -- The evolution of volitional modality -- Extension to other modal meanings -- Phonological and morphosyntactic developments within present-day English |
| Summary |
Emerging English Modals: A Corpus-Based Study of Grammaticalization (Topics in English Linguistics, No 32) |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-326) and index |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English language -- Modality.
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English language -- Discourse analysis.
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English language -- Grammaticalization.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
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English language -- Discourse analysis
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English language -- Grammaticalization
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English language -- Modality
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Grammatikalisation
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Modalität Linguistik
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Grammaticalisering.
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Modale hulpwerkwoorden.
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Engels.
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Englisch.
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
00056234 |
| ISBN |
9783110820980 |
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3110820986 |
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