Modal verbs of strong obligation in Scottish Standard English: Corpus data (doi:10.18710/GIP0PM)

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Document Description

Citation

Title:

Modal verbs of strong obligation in Scottish Standard English: Corpus data

Identification Number:

doi:10.18710/GIP0PM

Distributor:

DataverseNO

Date of Distribution:

2021-02-19

Version:

1

Bibliographic Citation:

Schützler, Ole; Herzky, Jenny, 2021, "Modal verbs of strong obligation in Scottish Standard English: Corpus data", https://doi.org/10.18710/GIP0PM, DataverseNO, V1, UNF:6:1qo2z6HvFxex9k9bSnXYLA== [fileUNF]

Study Description

Citation

Title:

Modal verbs of strong obligation in Scottish Standard English: Corpus data

Identification Number:

doi:10.18710/GIP0PM

Authoring Entity:

Schützler, Ole (University of Bamberg)

Herzky, Jenny (University of Bamberg)

Other identifications and acknowledgements:

Li, Zeyu

Producer:

University of Bamberg

German Research Foundation

Software used in Production:

AntConc

Software used in Production:

R

Software used in Production:

RStudio

Software used in Production:

R package 'brms'

Software used in Production:

R package 'rstan'

Software used in Production:

R package 'StanHeaders'

Software used in Production:

R package 'lattice'

Grant Number:

SCHU 3250/1-1

Distributor:

DataverseNO

Distributor:

The Tromsø Repository of Language and Linguistics (TROLLing)

Access Authority:

Schützler, Ole

Depositor:

Schützler, Ole

Date of Deposit:

2021-02-06

Holdings Information:

https://doi.org/10.18710/GIP0PM

Study Scope

Keywords:

Arts and Humanities, Scottish Standard English, Modal verbs, Obligation

Abstract:

The dataset contains instances of the (semi-)modal verbs 'must', 'have to', 'need to' and '(have) got to' from nineteen written and spoken genres in the Scottish and British components of the International Corpus of English (ICE-SCO and ICE-GB). Nonfinite forms (e.g. 'will have to', 'might need to'), interrogatives, past-tense forms, as well as negations were excluded (partly through non-inclusion in the search, partly manually), as were all epistemic instances (predominantly of 'must') and non-obligation meanings of 'got to' (e.g. 'They got to be friends'). The sentences attached to each occurrence were manually annotated for grammatical person (of the subject) and source of obligation (objective vs. subjective).

Time Period:

1989-2018

Date of Collection:

2019-01-01-2019-12-01

Country:

United Kingdom, United Kingdom

Geographic Coverage:

Scotland

Kind of Data:

Corpus data

Methodology and Processing

Sources Statement

Data Sources:

International Corpus of English: British and Scottish Components

Documentation and Access to Sources:

https://www.ice-corpora.uzh.ch/en.html [ICE-website at the University of Zurich] Kirk, John & Gerald Nelson. 2018. The International Corpus of English project: A progress report. World Englishes 34(4): 697–716. https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12350 Nelson, Gerald, Sean Wallis & Bas Aarts. 2002. Exploring Natural Language. Working with the British Component of the International Corpus of English. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Schützler, Ole, Ulrike Gut & Robert Fuchs. 2017. New perspectives on Scottish Standard English: Introducing the Scottish component of the International Corpus of English. In: Joan C. Beal & Sylvie Hancil (Hg.), Perspectives on northern Englishes. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter [TiEL 96]. 273–302. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110450903-012

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Documentation of analysis: https://osf.io/aq2r5/

Related Publications

Citation

Title:

Schützler, O., & Herzky, J. (2022). Modal verbs of strong obligation in Scottish Standard English. English Language & Linguistics, 26(1), 133-159. doi:10.1017/S1360674321000071

Identification Number:

10.1017/S1360674321000071

Bibliographic Citation:

Schützler, O., & Herzky, J. (2022). Modal verbs of strong obligation in Scottish Standard English. English Language & Linguistics, 26(1), 133-159. doi:10.1017/S1360674321000071

File Description--f89405

File: modals.tab

  • Number of cases: 898

  • No. of variables per record: 1

  • Type of File: text/tab-separated-values

Notes:

UNF:6:1qo2z6HvFxex9k9bSnXYLA==

Variable Description

List of Variables:

Variables

X;variety;mode;genre;text;verb;gram_subject;source_1st;source_2nd

f89405 Location:

Variable Format: character

Notes: UNF:6:1qo2z6HvFxex9k9bSnXYLA==

Other Study-Related Materials

Label:

00_ReadMe_ModalVerbsOfStrongObligationInScottishStandardEnglish_CorpusData.txt

Notes:

text/plain

Other Study-Related Materials

Label:

ICE_licences.pdf

Notes:

application/pdf