TY - BOOK ID - 17135446 TI - Modals and quasi-modals in English PY - 2009 VL - 67 SN - 9789042025325 9042025328 9786612594564 9042029099 1441606564 1282594567 9781441606563 9789042029095 PB - Amsterdam New York, NY Rodopi DB - UniCat KW - English language KW - Corpora (Linguistics) KW - Grammar KW - Study and teaching KW - Modality KW - Computational linguistics. KW - Engelse taal KW - Modale werkwoorden. KW - Modaliteit. KW - Lexicology. Semantics KW - 802.0-56 KW - 802.0-56 Engels: syntaxis; semantiek KW - Engels: syntaxis; semantiek KW - Germanic languages KW - Corpus-based analysis (Linguistics) KW - Corpus linguistics KW - Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) KW - Grammaticalization. KW - Modality. KW - English language - Grammar - Study and teaching KW - English language - Modality UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:17135446 AB - 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. ER -