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Publication details [#26502]
Krug, Manfred. 2000. Emerging English modals. A corpus-based study of grammaticalization. . De Gruyter Mouton. XV+332 pp. 
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
In this corpus-based study on English modals, K. distinguishes 'emerging' from central modals, listing the following class of members that come closest to being prototypical:
have to, (have) got to, want to, (be) going to.