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- provides an in-depth corpus-based investigation of subordinated modal verb phrases combining usage-feature analysis with collocational/colligational analysis
- applies construction grammar to modality including the notions of complexity, schematicity, productivity and subjectivity
- discusses replicability as a methodological challenge in conducting a follow-up study to validate the findings
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Keywords
- modality
- modal verbs
- usage-based linguistics
- subordination
- construction grammar
- corpus-based analysis
- adverbial clauses
- relative clauses
- complement clauses
- correspondence analysis
- hierarchical configurational frequency analysis
- collocation
- colligation
- BNC
- British National Corpus
- behavioural profile analysis
- monofactorial analysis
- multifactorial analysis
- follow-up study
Authors and Affiliations
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Braunschweig, Germany
Pascal Hohaus
About the author
Pascal Hohaus worked as a PhD student at University of Hanover (2014–2019). He is currently coordinating the online study programs Business and Media Informatics at Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences (January 2020).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Subordinating Modalities
Book Subtitle: A Quantitative Analysis of Syntactically Dependent Modal Verb Constructions
Authors: Pascal Hohaus
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05643-6
Publisher: J.B. Metzler Stuttgart
eBook Packages: J.B. Metzler Humanities (German Language)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-476-05642-9Published: 27 February 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-476-05643-6Published: 26 February 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 286
Number of Illustrations: 29 b/w illustrations
Topics: Germanic Languages, Syntax, Applied Linguistics