The Development of Future Constructions in English: The Pragmatics of Modal and Temporal Will and Shall in Middle English: 2 (Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics) - Hardcover

Arnovick, Leslie K

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0820406465 ISBN 13: 9780820406466

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 1990

Synopsis

Arnovick examines the evolution of the English verbal system in a period of significant transformation by tracing the development in Old and Middle English of will and shall future constructions. Through pragmatic analysis of speech acts, she demonstrates how speakers employed both modal and temporal auxiliaries to communicate attitudes about the future. Arnovick finds historic precedent as well as intrinsic rationale for the received rules about will and shall.

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-'The Development of Future Constructions in English' has broad philosophical as well as historical and linguistic implications.- (Julian Boyd, University of California at Berkeley)
-This study is a useful contribution to the continuing debate on the English future. It is persuasive and well written, and through its rigid approach and methodology it sheds new light on an old problem.- (Herman Wekker, Linguistics)
-This study is a useful contribution to the continuing debate on the English future. It is persuasive and well written, and through its rigid approach and methodology it sheds new light on an old problem.- (Herman Wekker, Studies in Language)
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Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820406465
• ISBN 13: 9780820406466
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 215