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This book explores the evolution of modal constructions of necessity and obligation in New Englishes. Focusing on Singapore English, analysis of corpus data reveals lower levels of grammaticalization compared to its lexifier, British English. This trend is explained through the lenses of a "pan-stratist" model, which considers a spectrum of forces influencing the dynamics of contact. On the one hand, cognitive mechanisms seem to favour the selection of less grammaticalized (and more transparent) variants from the lexifier. On the other hand, the substrate is positioned as a background force, actively contributing to the selection of new material to address functional gaps in the system.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- 1âIntroduction
- 2âThe genesis of contact languages: An account of different hypotheses
- 3âModality: Necessity and obligation in English
- 4âNew Englishes and modality: Different history, different scenarios
- 5âTheoretical and methodological implications
- 6âCorpus data meet survey data: Overview of the results
- 7âDiscussion of the results: A pan-stratist approach
- 8âConclusion
- List of the analysed or cited corpora
- Index