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In the history of English at least five verbs have been found to mean ‘need’: þurfan, beþurfan, need, behove and mister. By adopting a corpus-based approach, this book studies all of them diachronically, from the origins of the language (c.750) to the end of the early Modern English period (1710).
  • Offers a detailed analysis of the meaning of these five verbs which have been found to mean ‘need’, filling a gap in the literature on modality and shedding new light on grammaticalization theory
  • Spans the period c.750 to 1710, adopting a corpus-based approach to study the verbs diachronically
  • Explores the evolution of necessity meanings in English, identifying regular semantic changes and challenging some well-established statements
  • Provides a detailed grammaticalization analysis, paying attention to the different Present-Day-English modal classes, including marginal and emerging modals

The Semantic Predecessors of Need in the History of English (c750-1710)

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In the history of English at least five verbs have been found to mean ‘need’: þurfan, beþurfan, need, behove and... Read more

    Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
    Publication Date: 18/09/2009
    ISBN13: 9781405192705, 978-1405192705
    ISBN10: 1405192704

    Number of Pages: 292

    Non Fiction , Dictionaries, Reference & Language

    Description

    In the history of English at least five verbs have been found to mean ‘need’: þurfan, beþurfan, need, behove and mister. By adopting a corpus-based approach, this book studies all of them diachronically, from the origins of the language (c.750) to the end of the early Modern English period (1710).
    • Offers a detailed analysis of the meaning of these five verbs which have been found to mean ‘need’, filling a gap in the literature on modality and shedding new light on grammaticalization theory
    • Spans the period c.750 to 1710, adopting a corpus-based approach to study the verbs diachronically
    • Explores the evolution of necessity meanings in English, identifying regular semantic changes and challenging some well-established statements
    • Provides a detailed grammaticalization analysis, paying attention to the different Present-Day-English modal classes, including marginal and emerging modals

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