A sociolinguistic perspective on the (quasi-)modals of obligation and necessity in Australian English
| Autor: | Cara Penry Williams, Minna Korhonen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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050101 languages & linguistics
Linguistics and Language Research program 060101 anthropology Language change 05 social sciences Modal verb Epistemic modality 06 humanities and the arts Language and Linguistics language.human_language Unit (housing) Variation (linguistics) Australian English Pedagogy language 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 0601 history and archaeology Sociology Obligation |
| Zdroj: | English World-Wide. 41:267-294 |
| ISSN: | 1569-9730 0172-8865 |
| DOI: | 10.1075/eww.00051.pen |
| Popis: | This article examines the distribution and sociolinguistic patterning of (quasi-)modals which express strong obligation/necessity, namely must, have to, have got to, got to and need to, in Australian English. Variationist studies in other varieties of English have had contrasting findings in terms of distributions of root forms, as well as their conditioning by social and linguistic factors. The corpus analysis suggests real-time increased use of need to and decrease in have got to through comparison to earlier findings. The variationist analysis shows quasi-modals have to, have got to and got to as sensitive to speaker age and sex, and a recent increase of have to via apparent time modelling. Linguistic conditioning relating to the type of obligation and subject form is also found. The study contributes to sociolinguistic understanding of this large-scale change in English and the place of Australian English amongst other varieties. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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