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Language: en
Pages: 218

Modal Auxiliaries from Late Old to Early Middle English

Authors: Kousuke Kaita
Categories: English language
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-04-17 - Publisher: Herbert Utz Verlag

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Why do Modern English modal auxiliaries ought to, should, and must, meaning OBLIGATION, occur in the present tense, yet their forms are in the preterite? Why do
Early English Modals
Language: en
Pages: 399

Early English Modals

Authors: Sune Gregersen
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020 - Publisher:

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The Pragmatics of Modals in Shakespeare
Language: en
Pages: 300

The Pragmatics of Modals in Shakespeare

Authors: Minako Nakayasu
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: Peter Lang

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Modals and related phenomena are without doubt one of the most complicated issues in the grammar of language. This study provides a reappraisal of the modals in
Comparative Studies in Early Germanic Languages
Language: en
Pages: 326

Comparative Studies in Early Germanic Languages

Authors: Gabriele Diewald
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-10 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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This volume offers a coherent and detailed picture of the diachronic development of verbal categories of Old English, Old High German, and other Germanic langua
The Oxford Handbook of Grammaticalization
Language: en
Pages: 948

The Oxford Handbook of Grammaticalization

Authors: Heiko Narrog
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-10-13 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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This book presents a critical assessment of research on grammaticalization, a central element in the process by which grammars are created. Leading scholars dis