Variation in Central Modals : A Repertoire of Forms and Types of Usage in Middle English and Early Modern English
Overview
This volume presents the results of a research team of the University of Bergamo, whose aim was the analysis of verbal modality in the Helsinki corpus. This corpus includes a large selection of texts compiled in Middle English and Early Modern English and offers a good diatypic coverage, as it contains a wide range of text-types, genres and registers.
Within a common methodological framework, individual chapters measure and analyze the occurrence and semantic values of central modal verbs, relating them to such parameters as text type, speech-relatedness and pragmatic function.
This research project is part of a wider national project aiming to register and comment on the formal variety of modal manifestations and their relative frequency in a range of texts covering approximately four centuries, from about 1300 to 1700.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9783906769844
- ISBN-10: 3906769844
- Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P
- Publish Date: October 2002
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.77 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.09 pounds
- Page Count: 370
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