Joanne Close

List of John Benjamins publications in which Joanne Close is involved.

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Close, Joanne and Bas Aarts 2010 Current change in the modal system of English: A case study of must, have to and have got to English Historical Linguistics 2008: Selected papers from the fifteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 15), Munich, 24-30 August 2008., Lenker, Ursula, Judith Huber and Robert Mailhammer (eds.), pp. 165–182 | Chapter
This paper takes the variation between must, have to and have got to as a window through which to view changes in the modal system in Present-Day British English (1960s–1990s). The results from this study show a dramatic decrease in frequency of the core modal must and a significant increase in… read more
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