Variation in Central Modals: A Repertoire of Forms and Types of Usage in Middle English and Early Modern English

Variation in Central Modals: A Repertoire of Forms and Types of Usage in Middle English and Early Modern English 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. Autor: Maurizio Gotti, Marina Dossena Wydawnictwo: Verlag Peter Lang Rok wydania: 2002 Okładka: miękka Liczba stron: 364 Wymiary: 15.2 x 22.5 x 1.9 cm Ilustracje: bibliographical references , index Język: angielski ISBN: 9783906769844