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Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry
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Anglais
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Carmelo Alessandro Basile (Intervention)
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Carmelo Alessandro Basile. EMMA. (2024, 11 avril). "What a “pan-stratist” model tells us about modality in contact: A case study from Singapore English", Alessandro Basile, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle , in Language change and variation in English. [Vidéo]. Canal-U. https://www.canal-u.tv/160142. (Consultée le 9 février 2025)

"What a “pan-stratist” model tells us about modality in contact: A case study from Singapore English", Alessandro Basile, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle

Réalisation : 11 avril 2024 - Mise en ligne : 30 janvier 2025
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This talk aims to explore the development of a set of modal constructions of necessity and strong obligation, namely musthave to, (havegot togottaneed 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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