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1 online resource (xiv, 332 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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polychrome |
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Topics in English linguistics ; 32
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Topics in English linguistics ; 32.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-326) and index. |
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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 -- Cologne project: Lehmann, Heine and associates -- Recent developments -- Contact-induced change and sociolinguistic dialectology -- A corpus-based approach -- Scope and aims -- Sources of the present study -- Historical corpora -- Corpora of contemporary English -- Defining modality and auxiliarihood -- Properties of English auxiliaries and modals -- Relevance of the history of English central modals to the study of emerging modals -- Previous research on emerging modals -- Largely descriptive approaches -- 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 -- 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 -- Evolution of volitional modality -- Extension to other modal meanings -- Phonological and morphosyntactic developments within present-day English. |
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| Summary |
Emerging English Modals: A Corpus-Based Study of Grammaticalization (Topics in English Linguistics, No 32). |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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English. |
| Subject |
English language -- Modality.
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English language -- Modality. |
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English language -- Discourse analysis.
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English language -- Discourse analysis. |
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English language -- Grammaticalization.
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English language -- Grammaticalization. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic book.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Krug, Manfred G., 1966- Emerging English modals. Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2000 3110166542 (DLC) 00056234 (OCoLC)44467343 |
| ISBN |
9783110820980 (electronic book) |
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3110820986 (electronic book) |
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3110166542 |
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9783110166545 |
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