Diachronic changes in modality in South African English

English World-Wide

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-26

  Rossouw, Ronel ^a   Van Rooy, Bertus ^a  

^a NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Corpus linguistics; Historical linguistics; Modals; Register variation; South African English (SAfE)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857313886     PISSN: 01728865     EISSN: 15699730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/eww.33.1.01ros     Document Type: Review

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