Emerging English modals : a corpus-based study of grammaticalization

By M. Krug. 2000

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Which-hunting and the Standard English relative clause (2015, background): “…in progress examined here resembles other well-documented shifts that have been explained in the broader context of colloquialization and Americanization, for example, the shift from canonical modal verbs (e.g. must ) to so-called ‘emerging modals’ (Krug 2000, e.g. need to , want to / wanna ).”
Peaks Beyond Phonology: Adolescence, Incrementation, and Language Change (2009, background): “Got to is a much more recent addition, believed to have entered the paradigm just over a century ago (Jespersen 1961a, Krug 2000, Traugott 1999, Visser 1963–73).”
Recent changes in the function and frequency of Standard English genitive constructions: a multivariate analysis of tagged corpora (2007, background): “…have substantiated the existence of such a drift by noting growing frequencies of ‘involved’ features such as semimodals and the progressive aspect (Krug 2000 – cf. also above for the features treated in Hundt & Mair 1999), or shrinking frequencies of ‘informational’ features such as the passive…”
The Present of the English Future: Grammatical Variation and Collocations in Discourse (2009, background): “…the constraints of register: going to and the Present Progressive are more frequent in speech than in writing (Berglund 1997:16, Palmer 1990:142, Quirk et al. 1985:214, Wekker 1976, Whyte 1949, cited in Visser 1970:1952) and going to is more frequent in drama than in fiction (Krug 2000:171).”