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"What a “pan-stratist” model tells us about modality in contact: A case study from Singapore English", Alessandro Basile, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle
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This talk aims to explore the development of a set of modal constructions of necessity and strong obligation, namely must, have to, (have) got to, gotta, need to, and better, in the contact variety known as Singapore English. Analysing corpus data spanning from the 1990s to the present, it is shown how these constructions present notable higher rates of dynamic modality than its lexifier, British English. This trend is explained through the lenses of a “pan-stratist” model, which considers a spectrum of forces influencing the dynamics of contact situations. On the one hand, cognitive mechanisms such as “motivatedness”, “markedness”, and the avoidance of formal complexity guide the inclination towards selecting less grammaticalized (and more transparent) variants from the lexifier. On the other hand, the substrate is positioned as a background force (or sub-force), actively contributing to the selection of new material to address functional gaps in the system.
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