The degree of grammaticalization of gotta, gonna, wanna and better: A corpus study

The paper studies the degree of grammaticalization of the structures gotta, gonna, wanna and better. The study presumes that the semantics of these structures – more precisely their modal polyfunctionality (i.e. the ability to express deontic and epistemic meaning at the same time) – has an impact o...

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Published in:	Topics in Linguistics
Main Author:	Machová Dagmar
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra 2015-06-01
Subjects:	grammaticalization operator properties agreement gotta gonna wanna had better
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.2478/topling-2015-0005