| Variation in Central Modals: A Repertoire of Forms and Types of Usage in Middle English and Early Modern English Contributor(s): Gotti, Maurizio (Other), Gotti, Maurizio (Author), Dossena, Marina (Author) |
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ISBN: 3906769844 ISBN-13: 9783906769844 Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P OUR PRICE: $143.15 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2002 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General - Foreign Language Study | English As A Second Language - Computers | Data Processing |
| Dewey: 427.02 |
| LCCN: 2002035928 |
| Series: Linguistic Insights |
| Physical Information: 0.77" H x 6" W x 9" (1.09 lbs) 370 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |