Had better, ’d better and better: Diachronic and transatlantic variation

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments v
3. Table of contents vii
4. List of Contributors ix
5. Part I: Core modality
6. Modals: Striving for control 3
7. Contemporary change in modal usage in spoken British English: mapping the impact of “genre” 57
8. Where have all the modals gone? An essay on the declining frequency of core modal auxiliaries in recent standard English 95
9. Part II: Peripheral modality
10. Had better, ’d better and better: Diachronic and transatlantic variation 119
11. Grammatical colloquialism and the English quasi-modals: a comparative study 155
12. Modal necessity and impersonality in English and Galician 171
13. Modal uses of the English present progressive 201
14. On the generic argument for the modality of will 221
15. Part III: Evidentiality and Modality
16. REALITY and related concepts: towards a semantic-pragmatic map of English adverbs 253
17. A cross-linguistic look at the multifunctionality of the English verb seem 281
18. Annotating English adverbials for the categories of epistemic modality and evidentiality 317
19. Part IV: Evidentiality and Modality in Discourse
20. Modal verbs in news-related blogs: When the blogger counts 359
21. Modality and personal pronouns as indexical markers of stance: Intersubjective positioning and construction of public identity in media interviews 379
22. Stancetaking and inter/subjectivity in the Iraq Inquiry: Blair vs. Brown 411
23. Subject index 447