32.1802, Diss: English; Linguistic Theories; Pragmatics; Semantics; Syntax; Text/Corpus Linguistics: Pascal Hohaus: '' Subordinating Modalities - A Quantitative Analysis of Syntactically Dependent Modal Verb Constructions''

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Date: Mon, 24 May 2021 13:28:14
From: Pascal Hohaus [pascal.hohaus at engsem.uni-hannover.de]
Subject: Subordinating Modalities - A Quantitative Analysis of Syntactically Dependent Modal Verb Constructions

 
Institution: Leibniz University Hannover 
Program: English Linguistics 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2020 

Author: Pascal Hohaus

Dissertation Title: Subordinating Modalities - A Quantitative Analysis of
Syntactically Dependent Modal Verb Constructions 

Dissertation URL:  https://www.springer.com/de/book/9783476056429

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Pragmatics
                     Semantics
                     Syntax
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Dissertation Director(s):
Rainer Schulze
Martin Hilpert

Dissertation Abstract:

This study is concerned with the use of the English modals (may, might, can,
could, shall, should, will, would and must) in adverbial, relative and
complement clauses. It employs synchronic data from the British National
Corpus and quantitative methods to investigate similarities and differences
between the core modals, as well as modal-specific preferences in subordinate
clauses. The main finding is that modal verbs in subordinate clauses may be
conceived of as meso-constructions and that they qualify as
micro-constructions once further syntagmatic features are considered. This
allows for distinguishing modal verb phrases with different degrees of
complexity, schematicity, productivity and subjectivity. Further applications
give us insights into collocations, modal harmony, semantic preference, and
the attraction of dynamic meaning to relative clauses.




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