Emerging English Modals : : A Corpus-Based Study of Grammaticalization / / Manfred G. Krug.
This work is essentially based on grammaticalization theory – a branch of linguistics which has gained prominence since the 1980s. It focuses on the interaction between diachrony and synchrony, langue and parole or, for that matter, competence and performance, I–language and Ε–language. It does not...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011] ©2000 |
Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (332 p.) :; 4 Ktn. |
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Table of Contents:
- I-XVI
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Theoretical, methodological and empirical foundations
- 3 HAVE GOT TO/GOTTA and HAVE TO/HAFTA
- 4 WANT TO and WANNA
- 5 Models and motivations for emerging English modals. 5.1 Chapter outline
- 5 Models and motivations for emerging English modals. 5.2 Frequency
- 5 Models and motivations for emerging English modals. 5.3 Mechanisms and pathways of change
- 5 Models and motivations for emerging English modals. 5.4 Towards a model for natural change in spoken and written text types
- 5 Models and motivations for emerging English modals. 5.5 The marginal modals NEED (TO), OUGHT (TO) and DARE (TO)
- 5 Models and motivations for emerging English modals. 5.6 Motivations
- 5 Models and motivations for emerging English modals. 5.7 Gravitation and categorization
- 5 Models and motivations for emerging English modals. 5.8 Some implications of the gravitation model
- 6 Conclusion
- Notes
- Appendices
- References
- Index