%0 Book
%A Maurizio Gotti
%A Marina Dossena
%A Richard Dury
%A Roberta Facchinetti
%D 2021
%C Lausanne, Switzerland
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 1424-8689
%T Variation in Central Modals
%B A Repertoire of Forms and Types of Usage in Middle English and Early Modern English
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1094800
%X 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.
%K Dynamic, English, Linguistics, History of the English language, Modal verbs
%G English