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, individul chapters measure and analyse 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.
Variation in Central Modals. A Repertoire of Forms and Types of Usage in Middle English and Early Modern English
FACCHINETTI, Roberta;
2002-01-01
Abstract
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, individul chapters measure and analyse 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.
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