3 Modality: Necessity and obligation in English

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements VII
3. Contents IX
4. List of illustrations XIII
5. List of abbreviations XVII
6. 1 Introduction 1
7. 2 The genesis of contact languages: An account of different hypotheses 7
8. 3 Modality: Necessity and obligation in English 53
9. 4 New Englishes and modality: Different history, different scenarios 90
10. 5 Theoretical and methodological implications 120
11. 6 Corpus data meet survey data: Overview of the results 146
12. 7 Discussion of the results: A pan-stratist approach 200
13. 8 Conclusion 224
14. Appendices 233
15. List of the analysed or cited corpora 255
16. References 257
17. Index 279