35.2566, Books: Modality in Contact : Basile (2024)

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Date: 18-Sep-2024
From: Katrin Stein [katrin.stein at degruyter.com]
Subject: Modality in Contact : Basile (2024)


Title: Modality in Contact
Subtitle: Necessity and Obligation in New Englishes
Series Title: Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB]
Publication Year: 2024
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
                https://cloud.newsletter.degruyter.com/mouton
Book URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111488752/html

Author: Carmelo Alessandro Basile
Hardback: ISBN: 9783111487144 Pages: 281 Price: Europe EURO 109,95
eBook: ISBN: 9783111488752 Pages: 281 Price: Europe EURO 109,95
Abstract:

This book explores the evolution of modal constructions of necessity
and obligation in New Englishes. Focusing on Singapore English,
analysis of corpus data reveals lower levels of grammaticalization
compared to its lexifier, British English. This trend is explained
through the lenses of a “pan-stratist” model, which considers a
spectrum of forces influencing the dynamics of contact. On the one
hand, cognitive mechanisms seem to favour the selection of less
grammaticalized (and more transparent) variants from the lexifier. On
the other hand, the substrate is positioned as a background force,
actively contributing to the selection of new material to address
functional gaps in the system.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics

Written In: English (eng)



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