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

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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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783476056429
ISBN-10: 3476056422
Ilustrații: XV, 286 p. 29 illus.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2020
Editura: J.B. Metzler
Colecția J.B. Metzler
Locul publicării:Stuttgart, Germany

Cuprins

Contents

Construction Grammar, Behavioural Profile Analysis.- Hierarchical Configural Frequency Analysis, Correspondence Analysis.- Monofactorial Analyses, Multifactorial Analyses.- Complexity, Schematicity, Productivity, Subjectivity.- Multicollinearity, Generalisability, Replicability.

Notă biografică

The Author

Pascal Hohaus worked as a PhD student at University of Hanover (2014–2019). He is currently coordinating the online study programs Business and Media Informatics at Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences (January 2020).

Textul de pe ultima copertă

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.

Contents

Construction Grammar, Behavioural Profile Analysis
Hierarchical Configural Frequency Analysis, Correspondence Analysis
Monofactorial Analyses, Multifactorial Analyses
Complexity, Schematicity, Productivity, Subjectivity
Multicollinearity, Generalisability, Replicability

Target Groups

Academics and students of English Linguistics
Corpus linguists

The Author

Pascal Hohaus worked as a PhD student at University of Hanover (2014–2019). He is currently coordinating the online study programs Business and Media Informatics at Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences (January 2020).

Caracteristici

provides an in-depth corpus-based investigation of subordinated modal verb phrases combining usage-feature analysis with collocational/colligational analysis applies construction grammar to modality including the notions of complexity, schematicity, productivity and subjectivity discusses replicability as a methodological challenge in conducting a follow-up study to validate the findings

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