Introduction
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This chapter sets the present book off against previous studies about the English subjunctive in the historical periods Old English (OE), Middle English (ME), and Early Modern English (EModE). The aim of the book is described as the first comprehensive and consistent description of the history of the present English subjunctive. The key term subjunctive is defined as a realisation of the grammatical category mood and an expression of the semantic/pragmatic category root modality. The corpus used in the book is part of The Helsinki Corpus of English Texts, comprising nearly half a million words in 91 files. The research method adopted is a combination of close reading and computational analysis.
2020 ◽
pp. 202-240
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2018 ◽
pp. 12-32
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2020 ◽
pp. 95-152
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2020 ◽
pp. 58-94
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2010 ◽
Vol 14
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pp. 373-397
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1997 ◽
Vol 1
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pp. 91-110
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Vol 12
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pp. 178-197
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