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Modality in Contact : Necessity and Obligation in New Englishes / Carmelo Alessandro Basile.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Basile, Carmelo Alessandro, author.
- Series:
- Language, context, and cognition ; Volume 36.
- Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB] Series ; Volume 36
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Singapore.
- English language.
- English language--Modality.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (302 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin, Germany : De Gruyter, [2024]
- Summary:
- This book explores the evolution of modal constructions of necessity and obligation in New Englishes.Focusing on Singapore English, analysis of corpus data reveals lower levels of grammaticalization compared to its lexifier, British English.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The genesis of contact languages: An account of different hypotheses
- 3 Modality: Necessity and obligation in English
- 4 New Englishes and modality: Different history, different scenarios
- 5 Theoretical and methodological implications
- 6 Corpus data meet survey data: Overview of the results
- 7 Discussion of the results: A pan-stratist approach
- 8 Conclusion
- Appendices
- List of the analysed or cited corpora
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9783111488752
- 3111488756
- OCLC:
- 1450332004
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