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Modality in Contact: Necessity and Obligation in New Englishes

Modality in Contact: Necessity and Obligation in New Englishes

Basile, Carmelo Alessandro

Hardcover

Series: Language Contact and Bilingualism [Lcb], Book 36

Foreign Language GeneralLinguistics

ISBN10: 3111487148
ISBN13: 9783111487144
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
Published: Sep 3 2024
Pages: 300
Weight: 1.32
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Eugenio Coseriu Award 2025 by the SLE (Societas Linguistica Europaea)

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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