Modals And Quasi Modals In English
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Author | : Peter Collins |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 2015-06-29 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9042029099 |
Modals and Quasi-modals in English reports the findings of a corpus-based study of the modals and a set of semantically-related ‘quasi-modals’ in English. The study is the largest and most comprehensive to date in this area, and is informed by recent developments in the study of modality, including grammaticalization and recent diachronic change. The selection of the parallel corpora used, representing British, American and Australian English, was designed to facilitate the exploration of both regional and stylistic variation.
Author | : F.R. Palmer |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2014-02-04 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1317900928 |
A detailed account of the many uses and functions of these verbs. The nature of modality, and some controversial issues, are also discussed.
Author | : Roberta Facchinetti |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2012-02-13 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110895331 |
This book offers original theoretical accounts and a wealth of descriptive information concerning modality in present-day English. At the same time, it provides fresh impetus to more general linguistic issues such as grammaticalization, colloquialization, or the interplay between sociolinguistic and syntactic constraints. The articles fall into four sections: (a) the semantics and pragmatics of core modal verbs; (b) the status of emerging modal items; (c) stylistic variation and change; (d) sociolinguistic variation and syntactic models. The book is of considerable value to students and teachers of English and Linguistics at undergraduate and graduate level worldwide.
Author | : Beke Hansen |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 437 |
Release | : 2018-12-24 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 900438152X |
In Corpus Linguistics and Sociolinguistics, Beke Hansen analyses variation and change in the modal systems of three second-language varieties of English in Asia by taking a sociolinguistic approach to corpus data. Her study focuses on the modal and semi-modal verbs of strong obligation and necessity in Hong Kong English, Indian English, and Singapore English based on the relevant ICE component corpora. She adopts a typologically-informed perspective on variation in World Englishes by comparing the structures of the speakers’ first languages with the structures of the emergent varieties in the expression of epistemic modality. Beyond this, she analyses language change by constructing apparent-time scenarios to compensate for the lack of diachronic corpora in World Englishes.
Author | : Paul Westney |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2013-02-07 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110958902 |
English has a number of periphrastic verbal forms that are semantically close to particular modal verbs and perform suppletive functions in relation to them (eg, have (got) to - must and be able to - can). After an exploration of the syntactic, semantic and phonological properties of potential periphrastic forms, this study investigates the nature of the relationship between the modals must, should, will and can and various semantically close periphrastics, using a spoken corpus of British English as the primary source of data. The focus is on the pragmatic interpretation of the items being compared, with some attention to their functions in discourse. These items are notoriously idiosyncratic both syntactically and semantically, but the general contrast claimed by some scholars between the maximally unmarked status of modals and the relatively marked status of periphrastics is amply confirmed, and this, together with the basic association of modality with alternative possible worlds, is shown to be reflected in a number of different ways, including the claimed 'objectivity' of periphrastics and the tendency of some to be associated with actuality. Level of formality is also found to be a significant, though not uniform, factor here.
Author | : Bas Aarts |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 826 |
Release | : 2008-04-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 140517840X |
The Handbook of English Linguistics is a collection ofarticles written by leading specialists on all core areas ofEnglish linguistics that provides a state-of-the-art account ofresearch in the field. Brings together articles from the core areas of Englishlinguistics, including syntax, phonetics, phonology, morphology, aswell as variation, discourse, stylistics and usage Written by specialists from around the world Provides an introduction to a key area of English Linguisticsand includes a discussion of the most recent theoretical anddescriptive research, as well as extensive bibliographicreferences
Author | : Marianne Hundt |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2012-03-07 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027274940 |
This volume presents a collection of in-depth cross-varietal studies on a broad spectrum of grammatical features in English varieties spoken all over the world. The contributions explore the structural unity and diversity of New Englishes and thus investigate central aspects of dialect evolution and language change. Moreover, this volume offers new insights into the question as to what constrains new dialect formation, and examines universal trends across a wide range of contact situations. The contributions in this volume further study the possibilities and limitations of quantitative and qualitative corpus analyses in comparative studies of New Englishes and exemplify novel approaches, e.g. the contribution of syntactic corpus annotation (tagging and parsing) to the description of New English structures; the use (and limitations) of web-derived data as an additional source of information; and the possibility to complement corpus data with evidence from sociolinguistic fieldwork.
Author | : Juana I. Marín-Arrese |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 459 |
Release | : 2013-12-12 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110286327 |
The book presents new issues and areas of work in modality and evidentiality in English(es), and in relation to other European languages (French, Galician, Lithuanian, Spanish). Given the complexity of the relations among modal and evidential expressions, their constant diachronic evolution, and the variation found in different English-speaking areas, and in different genres and discourse domains, the volume addresses the following issues: the conceptual nature of modality, the relationship between the domains of modality and evidentiality, the evolution and current status of the modal auxiliaries and other modal expressions, the relationship with neighbouring grammatical categories (tense, aspect, mood), and the variation in different discourse domains and genres, in modelling stance and discourse identities.
Author | : Dagmar Deuber |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2014-04-03 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1107027470 |
An in-depth study of English as spoken in two major anglophone Caribbean territories, Jamaica and Trinidad.
Author | : Jennifer Coates |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : 9780709907350 |