Episode 24 Will: future time marker vs. modal
Hello folks!
This week’s episode is a response to a question from a listener. I’m so pleased that my listeners are starting to really engage with this podcast and send me requests for content - keep the requests coming!
In this week’s podcast there’s a lot of nitty-gritty with regard to tense and to modality. On the one hand, we’ll be summing up the dominant paradigms with regard to tense and modality, and on the other, we’ll be engaging with some linguistic research that questions these paradigms.
For anyone who is interested, I highly recommend reading this paper by Raphael Salkie.
Here’s a list of all the material that I have referenced either directly or indirectly in this episode:
“4 Tense and Aspect.” Advanced English Grammar: a Linguistic Approach, by Ilse Depraetere and Chad Langford Bloomsbury Academic, 2020 pp. 175-154.
“5 Modals and Modality.” Advanced English Grammar: a Linguistic Approach, by Ilse Depraetere and Chad Langford, Bloomsbury Academic, 2020, pp. 255–314.
“Chapter 4 Clause as Exchange.” An Introduction to Functional Grammar, by M.A.K Halliday, 3rd ed., Hodder Education, 2004, pp. 106–167.
“Chapter 6 Below the Clause: Groups and Phrases.” An Introduction to Functional Grammar, by M.A.K Halliday, 3rd ed., Hodder Education, 2004, pp. 309–361.
“4 The Expression of Future Time.” Meaning and the English Verb, by Geoffrey N. Leech, 3rd ed., Routledge, 2004, pp. 55–71.
“Chapter 5 Verbs: Modals .” Navigating English Grammar a Guide to Analyzing Real Language, by Anne Lobeck and Kristin Denham, Wiley-Blackwell, 2014, pp. 90–94.
Salkie, Raphael. “Degrees of Modality .” Modality in English: Theory and Description, by Raphael Salkie et al., Mouton De Gruyter, 2009, pp. 79–104.
Salkie, Raphael. “Will: Tense or Modal or Both?” English Language and Linguistics, vol. 14, no. 2, 2010, pp. 187–215., doi:10.1017/s1360674310000055.
