TY  - BOOK
AU  - Basile,Carmelo Alessandro
TI  - Modality in Contact: Necessity and Obligation in New Englishes 
T2  - Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB] ,
SN  - 9783111487144
AV  - PE1315.M6 B37 2024
U1  - 425.6 23/eng/20240903
PY  - 2024///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston
PB  - De Gruyter Mouton
KW  - English language
KW  - Foreign countries
KW  - Modality
KW  - Englisch in Singapur
KW  - Grammatikalisierung
KW  - Modalkonstruktionen
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Dynamic Modality
KW  - Grammaticalization
KW  - Modal Constructions
KW  - Singapore English
KW  - World Englishes
N1  - Frontmatter --; Acknowledgements --; Contents --; List of illustrations --; List of abbreviations --; 1 Introduction --; 2 The genesis of contact languages: An account of different hypotheses --; 3 Modality: Necessity and obligation in English --; 4 New Englishes and modality: Different history, different scenarios --; 5 Theoretical and methodological implications --; 6 Corpus data meet survey data: Overview of the results --; 7 Discussion of the results: A pan-stratist approach --; 8 Conclusion --; Appendices --; List of the analysed or cited corpora --; References --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111488752
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783111488752
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783111488752/original
ER  -