Soili Nokkonen

List of John Benjamins publications in which Soili Nokkonen is involved.

Article

Nokkonen, Soili 2006 The semantic variation of NEED TO in four recent British English corpora International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 11:1, pp. 29–71 | Article

This paper explores the various meanings/uses of NEED TO, a semi-modal of obligation and necessity, in two spoken and two written corpora of British English from the 1950s to the 1990s. Previous corpus-based studies indicate that its overall usage has increased, but there is clearly a gap in… read more