A transatlantic perspective of variation and change in English deontic modality
A transatlantic perspective of variation and change in English deontic modality
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英语道义情态变异和变化的跨大西洋视角
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2004
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Bridget L. Jankowski
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Bridget L. Jankowski
本文通过对英语情态动词must和迂回结构have to、have got to和got to的语料库分析，着重探讨了英美英语中使用道义情态表达义务或必要性的变异性和持续变化。我们感兴趣的主要问题是，制约道义情态变化的因素在两种英语中是否相同，或者英国英语和美国英语是否经历着不同的变化过程。分析表明，必须专门为相同的语法语境，因为它在两种英语中的废弃物。然而，对这三种迂回变体的约束等级的比较表明，随着时间的推移，它们在英国和美国英语的语法中被不同地重新分配，并继续其语法化的过程。
This work presents the results of a corpus-based variationist analysis of the English modal verb must and the periphrastic constructions have to, have got to and got to, focusing on the variability and ongoing change in the use of deontic modality to express obligation or necessity in British and American English. The primary question of interest is whether the factors which are conditioning the variation in deontic modality are the same in both varieties of English, or if British and American English are undergoing different processes of change. The analysis shows that must specialized into identical grammatical contexts as it obsolesces in both varieties of English. However, comparison of constraint rankings for the three periphrastic variants shows that over time, they are being redistributed differently within the grammars of British and American English, and are continuing their process of grammaticalization.