Variation In Central Modals: A Repertoire Of Forms And Types Of Usage In Middle English And Early Modern English (Linguistic Insights. Studies in Language and Communication)

Gotti, Maurizio; Dossena, Marina; Dury, Richard; Facchinetti, Roberta

ISBN 10: 3906769844 / ISBN 13: 9783906769844

Published by Peter Lang, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Variation In Central Modals: A Repertoire Of Forms And Types Of Usage In Middle English And Early Modern English (Linguistic Insights. Studies in Language and Communication)
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3906769844
• ISBN 13: 9783906769844
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This volume presents the results of a research team of the University of Bergamo, whose aim was the analysis of verbal modality in the Helsinki corpus. This corpus includes a large selection of texts compiled in Middle English and Early Modern English and offers a good diatypic coverage, as it contains a wide range of text-types, genres and registers.
Within a common methodological framework, individual chapters measure and analyze the occurrence and semantic values of central modal verbs, relating them to such parameters as text type, speech-relatedness and pragmatic function.
This research project is part of a wider national project aiming to register and comment on the formal variety of modal manifestations and their relative frequency in a range of texts covering approximately four centuries, from about 1300 to 1700.

About the Author

The Authors: Maurizio Gotti is Professor of English at the University of Bergamo (Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures).
Marina Dossena is Associate Professor of English at the University of Bergamo (Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures).
Richard Dury is Associate Professor of English at the University of Bergamo (Faculty of Literature and Philosophy).
Roberta Facchinetti is Associate Professor of English at the University of Verona (Faculty of Education).
Maria Lima is Associate Professor of English at the University of Salerno (Faculty of Political Science).