‘You’ve got to sort of eh hoy the Geordie out’: modals of obligation and necessity in fifty years of Tyneside English

This article examines the use of the semi-modals have to, have got to and need to in the Diachronic Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English (DECTE), a corpus of spoken Northeastern English dating from the late 1960s to the present day. It will be shown that the semi-modals have, in many contexts, repl...

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Veröffentlicht in:	English language and linguistics 2015-07, Vol.19 (2), p.355-381
Hauptverfasser:	FEHRINGER, CAROL, CORRIGAN, KAREN
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	American English British English Corpus linguistics Diachronic linguistics English language Grammar Grammaticalization Linguistics Regional dialects
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