The degree of grammaticalization of gotta, gonna, wanna and better: A corpus study

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/topling-2015-0005" target="_blank" >10.2478/topling-2015-0005</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The degree of grammaticalization of gotta, gonna, wanna and better: A corpus study

Original language description

The paper studies the degree of grammaticalization of the structures gotta, gonna, wanna and better. The study presumes that the semantics of these structures - more precisely their modal polyfunctionality (i.e. the ability to express deontic and epistemic meaning at the same time) - has an impact on their morphosyntactic properties. Using corpora (predominantly the British National Corpus and the Corpus of Contemporary American English) and web forums, the paper studies in detail the level of independence of gotta, gonna, wanna and better from their respective auxiliaries (have and be) and the development of the operator properties of these structures typical for central modals (i.e. inversion in questions, compatibility with clausal negation and occurrence in elliptical contexts). It demonstrates that gonna and gotta are partially grammaticalized, especially with respect to the independence of their auxiliaries, but they do not syntactically behave as modals. The verb wanna behaves a

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AI - Linguistics

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Topics in Linguistics

ISSN

1337-7590

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

15

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

"Neuvedeno"

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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