Emerging English modals : a corpus-based study of grammaticalization / by Manfred G. Krug.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-326) and index.

Subject-matter and central claims -- Emerging modals and emergent grammar -- Theoretical, methodological and empirical foundations -- Functionalism, economy, frequency -- Grammaticalization -- Early proponents of grammaticalization theory -- The Cologne project: Lehmann, Heine and associates -- Recent developments -- Contact-induced change and sociolinguistic dialectology -- A corpus-based approach -- Scope and aims -- The sources of the present study -- Historical corpora -- Corpora of contemporary English -- Defining modality and auxiliarihood -- Properties of English auxiliaries and modals -- The relevance of the history of English central modals to the study of emerging modals -- Previous research on emerging modals -- Largely descriptive approaches -- The contraction debate -- Have Got to/Gotta and Have to/Hafta -- History and grammatical (re- )analysis -- Have to -- Have Got to -- Increase in discourse frequency -- Long-term trends: Archer -- Short-term trends -- Syntax and semantics of Have to and Have Got to -- Mechanisms of grammaticalization -- Present-day properties -- Stylistic variation -- Regional variation -- Want to and Wanna -- The rise of Want: Increase in discourse frequency and changing patterns of complementation -- Old and Middle English: From impersonal to transitive use -- Early Modern and Modern English -- Present-day English -- Semantic developments -- The evolution of volitional modality -- Extension to other modal meanings -- Phonological and morphosyntactic developments within present-day English.

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