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By Peter Collins

Modals and Quasi-modals in English reviews the findings of a corpus-based learn of the modals and a suite of semantically-related ‘quasi-modals’ in English. The examine is the most important and such a lot finished to this point during this region, and is expert by way of contemporary advancements within the research of modality, together with grammaticalization and up to date diachronic switch. the choice of the parallel corpora used, representing British, American and Australian English, used to be designed to facilitate the exploration of either nearby and stylistic variation.

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