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Social changes through the lens of language: A big data study of Chinese modal verbs

Leech’s corpus-based comparison of English modal verbs from 1961 to 1992 showed the steep decline of all modal verbs together, which he ascribed to continuing changes towards a more equal and less authority-driven society. This study inspired many diachronic and synchronic studies, mostly on English...

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Autores principales: Wang, Shan, Liu, Ruhan, Huang, Chu-Ren
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8726480/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34982791
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0260210