A CORPUS ANALYSIS OF CHANGES IN THE USE OF BRITISH AND AMERICAN ENGLISH MODALS AND SEMI-MODALS

Published: 6 July 2017| Version 1 | DOI: 10.17632/fc7nf683r6.1
Contributor:
Abbas Hussein Tarish

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This data applied during two ways; the first one is to test the modal replacement hypothesis proposed by Smith (2003) and discussed by Leech (2003), on the basis of data from the Hansard Corpus (THC- 1.6 billion words, 1800-2000) and the Corpus of Historical American English (COHA - 400 million words, 1810-2000). The second purpose of the study was to draw upon time series models to generate insights about how modal and semi-modal frequencies have changed over time. Cumulatively, these two forms of analysis addressed an acknowledged gap in the current literature on modal and semi-modal frequency change, namely the question of whether modals are being replaced by semi-modals.

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Institutions

  • Oxford Academy
  • Gimnazia 1531 Lingvisticeskaa imeni S K Godovikova
  • Letters Publishing and Distribution
  • Linguist
  • Universitatea din Bucuresti
  • Universia Brasil
  • Universitatea de Vest din Timisoara
  • Cambridge Centre for English Studies
  • University of Baghdad
  • Keio Gijuku Daigaku Bungakubu Shakaigaku Senko
  • University of Al Qadarif

Categories

Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics, Critical Linguistics

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