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Modals and quasi-modals in English

By Peter Collins

Book information

Publisher
Rodopi
Year
2009
ISBN
9042025328, 9789042025325, 9781441606563
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2968288 bytes)
Series
Language & Computers
Pages
204\204
Time added
2009-08-06 05:14:26
Языки и языкознание;Английский язык;Грамматика / E

Description

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.

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