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Subordinating Modalities: A Quantitative Analysis of Syntactically Dependent Modal Verb Constructions

Subordinating Modalities: A Quantitative Analysis of Syntactically Dependent Modal Verb Constructions

Hohaus, Pascal

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GermanGrammar & StyleLinguistics

ISBN10: 3476056422
ISBN13: 9783476056429
Publisher: J.B. Metzler
Published: Feb 27 2020
Pages: 286
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.64 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
This study is concerned with the use of the English modals (may, might, can, could, shall, should, will, would and must) in adverbial, relative and complement clauses. It employs synchronic data from the British National Corpus and quantitative methods to investigate similarities and differences between the core modals, as well as modal-specific preferences in subordinate clauses. The main finding is that modal verbs in subordinate clauses may be conceived of as meso-constructions and that they qualify as micro-constructions once further syntagmatic features are considered. This allows for distinguishing modal verb phrases with different degrees of complexity, schematicity, productivity and subjectivity. Further applications give us insights into collocations, modal harmony, semantic preference, and the attraction of dynamic meaning to relative clauses.

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