Publication: Beyond modal idioms and modal harmony: a corpus-based analysis of gradient idiomaticity in mod + adv collocations
Beyond modal idioms and modal harmony: a corpus-based analysis of gradient idiomaticity in mod + adv collocations
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Flach, S. (2020). Beyond modal idioms and modal harmony: a corpus-based analysis of gradient idiomaticity in mod + adv collocations. English Language and Linguistics, aop, online. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674320000301
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How do we know that would rather and may well are more idiomatic than would well or will really? Can this intuition be measured systematically in usage data? Traditionally, modal idioms such had/’d better, would/’d rather or might (as) well are seen as distinct from more compositional collocations, which may be modally harmonic (could possibly, will probably) or not (could also, might even). Yet the collocation of modal auxiliaries + adverbs (mod + adv) is more complex than suggested by a binary classification into idioms and non-idio
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Flach, S. (2020). Beyond modal idioms and modal harmony: a corpus-based analysis of gradient idiomaticity in mod + adv collocations. English Language and Linguistics, aop, online. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674320000301
