Subordinating Modalities A Quantitative Analysis of Syntactically De
This study is concerned with the use of the English modals (may, might, can, could, shall, should, will, would and must) in adverbial, relative complement clauses. It employs synchronic data from the British National Corpus and quantitative methods to inv
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Subordinating Modalities A Quantitative Analysis of Syntactically Dependent Modal Verb Constructions
Subordinating Modalities
Pascal Hohaus
Subordinating Modalities A Quantitative Analysis of Syntactically Dependent Modal Verb Constructions
Pascal Hohaus Braunschweig, Germany Dissertation, University of Hanover, submitted and accepted in 2018
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I wish to express my sincere appreciation to the following people for helping with this research project: Rainer Schulze for his encouragement, motivation and guidance throughout the project. Without his dedicated support and valuable suggestions, this PhD would not have been achievable. Martin Hilpert for enabling me to accomplish a research stay at Université de Neuchâtel and for his constant feedback as well as generous assistance throughout this study. Ulrike Altendorf, who continuously provided encouragement, support and advice. The meetings always inspired me to think from multiple perspectives. Manfred Krug for his insightful comments on the manuscript and thus paving the way for publication. My appreciation also goes out to my former colleagues and the student assistants from the English linguistics department at University of Hanover. I also want to say a big thank you to Helen Reese for proofreading and to Kristina Poncin for assistance with formatting the final manuscript. Furthermore, I would like to offer my special thanks to the German Economy Foundation (Sftiftung der Deutschen Wirtscha
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