Soili Nokkonen

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Nokkonen, Soili 2006 The semantic variation of NEED TO in four recent British English corpora International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 11:1, pp. 29–71 | Article
This paper explores the various meanings/uses of NEED TO, a semi-modal of obligation and necessity, in two spoken and two written corpora of British English from the 1950s to the 1990s. Previous corpus-based studies indicate that its overall usage has increased, but there is clearly a gap in… read more