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Analysing coercion in stative progressives in the Indian variety of the International Corpus of English (ICE).
(2016-04-21)Coercion is defined as “a semantic transformation that involves shifting of one type to another” (Pustejovsky, 1991), being a prototypical case the change from state to activity represented by the use of the progressive ... -
Modals and Quasi-modals of Obligation and Necessity in Indian and Canadian English.
(2021)This study contributes to the existing research regarding the frequency and distribution of modals and quasi-modals in varieties of English. The majority of the authors agree that, during the second half of the 20th century, ... -
That-clauses: Retention and Omission of Complementizer that in some Varieties of English
Calle-Martín, Javier
; Romero-Barranco, Jesús (2017-10-02)
An OBJECT CLAUSE, also sporadically referred to as a COMMENT CLAUSE (Warner 1982: 169; Huddleston & Pullum 2002: 951), is that kind of clause functioning as the direct object of the matrix verb. In English, the most common ...