Zkrácené slovesné formy a kategorie emergentních modálních sloves na základě korpusů současné mluvené angličtiny

Savčenko, Tomáš

The assumption of this work is that the shortened verbal form gonna is undergoing a process of grammaticalization. The aim of this work is to test and describe this process by comparing gonna with its parent phrase be going to. The theoretical part introduces modality and its general structure and the English modal system with a focus on modal verbs from synchronic and diachronic perspective. The category of 'emergent modals' that includes gonna and similar verbs (wanna, gotta, etc). is introduced followed by the introduction of the grammaticalization theory. The thesis that the practical part is testing is that there is a functional divergence between be going to and gonna as a result of a grammaticalization process. This divergence is thought to gather future functions in be going to and modal meanings in gonna as is assumed by its participation in 'emergent modals'. The practical part includes quantitative corpus analysis that showed a growing frequency of gonna through the 1990's, 2000's and 2010's, which supports its grammaticalization process, and unclear frequency trend for be going to, which suggests these phrases are not competing with each other functionally. Qualitative part presents the distribution of future and modal meanings of gonna on a sample of 200 concordance lines from the 90's...

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