Modal verbs in tyneside english: Evidence for (socio)linguistic theory

Modality in Contemporary English

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 373-387

  Trousdale, Graeme ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 85064826462     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1515/9783110895339.373     Document Type: Chapter

References (29)

1. Beal, Joan, 1993 The grammar of Tyneside and Northumbrian English. In Real English: the Grammar of English Dialects in the British Isles, James Milroy and Lesley Milroy (eds.), 187-213. London: Longman.
2. Chambers, Jack K., 1995 Sociolinguistic Theory. Oxford: Blackwell.
3. Cheshire, Jenny, 1982 Variation in an English Dialect. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
4. Chomsky, Noam, 1979 Language and Responsibility. Sussex: Harvester.
5. Chomsky, Noam, 1986 Barriers. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press.
6. Chomsky, Noam, 1995 The minimalist program. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press.
7. Coates, Jennifer, 1983 The Semantics of the Modal Auxiliaries. London: Croom Helm.
8. Conan-Doyle, Arthur, 1994 Reprint. A scandal in Bohemia. In The adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Harmondsworth: Penguin. First published in "the Strand" magazine [1891]
9. Denison, David, 1992 Counterfactual may have. In Internal and External Factors in Syntactic Change, Marinel Gerritsen and Dieter Stein (eds.), 229-56. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
10. Denison, David, 1993 English Historical Syntax. London: Longman.
11. Docherty, Gerry, Paul Foulkes, James Milroy, Lesley Milroy, and David Walshaw, 1997 Descriptive adequacy in phonology: Α variationist perspective. Journal of Linguistics 33: 275-310.
12. Holt, R. (ed.) 1878 The Ormulum: with the Notes and Glossary of Dr. R.M. White. 2 volumes. Oxford: Clarendon.
13. Hudson, Richard A., 1986 Sociolinguistics and the theory of grammar. Linguistics 24: 1053-78.
14. Hudson, Richard A., 1997a Inherent variability and linguistic theory. Cognitive Linguistics 8: 73-108.
15. Hudson, Richard A., 1997b The rise of auxiliary do: verb non-raising or category strengthening? Transactions of the Philological Society 95: 41-72.
16. Kroch, Anthony, 1994 Morphosyntactic variation. In Papers from the 3&h Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society, volume 2: the Parasession on Variation in Linguistic Theory, Katharine Beals, Jeannette Denton, Robert Knippen, Lynette Melnar, Hisami Suzuki, and Erica Zeinfeld (eds.), 180-201. Chicago: Chicago Linguistics Society.
17. Kytö, Merja, 1987 CAN (COULD) vs. MAY (MIGHT) in Old and Middle English: testing a diachronic corpus. Neophilologica Fennica 45: 205-40.
18. Labov, William, 1972 Language in the Inner City. Oxford: Blackwell.
19. McDonald, Christine, 1981 Variation in the use of modal verbs with special reference to Tyneside English. PhD dissertation, University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
20. Milroy, James and Lesley Milroy, 1993 Mechanisms of change in urban dialects: the role of class, social network and gender. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 3: 57-77.
21. Palmer, Frank R., 1990 Modality and the English Modals. 2d ed. London: Longman.
22. Palmer, Frank R., Original edition, London: Longman, 1979.
23. Pollock, Jean-Yves, 1989 Verb movement, UG and the structure of IP. Linguistic Inquiry 20: 365-424.
24. Quirk, Randolph, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech and Jan Svartvik, 1985 A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. London: Longman.
25. Radford, Andrew, 1997 Syntactic Theory and the Structure of English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
26. Smith, Neil V., 1989 The Twitter Machine: Reflections on Language. Oxford: Blackwell.
27. Tagliamonte, Sali, 1998 Was/were variation across the generations: view from the city of York. Language Variation and Change 10: 153-91.
28. Trousdale, Graeme, 2000 Variation and (socio)linguistic theory: A case study of Tyneside English. PhD dissertation, Department of English Language, University of Edinburgh.
29. Watt, Dominic J.L., 2000 Phonetic parallels between the close-mid vowels of Tyneside English: Are they internally or externally motivated? Language Variation and Change 12: 69-101.