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内容説明
In the history of English at least five verbs have been found to mean ‘need’: þurfan， beþurfan， need， behove and mister. By adopting a corpus-based approach， this book studies all of them diachronically， from the origins of the language (c.750) to the end of the early Modern English period (1710). Offers a detailed analysis of the meaning of these five verbs which have been found to mean ‘need’， filling a gap in the literature on modality and shedding new light on grammaticalization theory Spans the period c.750 to 1710， adopting a corpus-based approach to study the verbs diachronically Explores the evolution of necessity meanings in English， identifying regular semantic changes and challenging some well-established statements Provides a detailed grammaticalization analysis， paying attention to the different Present-Day-English modal classes， including marginal and emerging modals