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In the history of English at least five verbs have been found to mean 'need': purfan, bepurfan, 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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Book category Books in English Language linguistics Historical & comparative linguistics

• Full title: Semantic Predecessors of Need in the History of English (c750-1710)
• Author: Lucia Loureiro-Porto
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 292
• EAN: 9781405192705
• ISBN: 1405192704
• ID: 04956497
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
• Weight: 410 g
• Dimensions: 228 × 149 × 7 mm
• Date of publishing: 18. September 2009

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