Exploring a recent grammatical change : A corpus-based investigation of the core modals will and shall and the semi-modal BE going to in newspapers and blogs written by Swedes
The aim of this study is to investigate how the modal auxiliaries will and shall and the semi-modal BE going to are used to express futurity by individuals whose first language is Swedish. The study is corpus based, and the corpora used in this study consist of Swedish newspapers in English (SWENC)...
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Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR)
2014
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| Online Access: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-31860 |