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Grammaticalization - Coggle Diagram
Grammaticalization
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Example 2: Modal verbs
Most ModE modal verbs go back to old Germanic preterite-present verbs, i.e. the present tense forms are old past-tense forms
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During the OE and ME period the modals lost some of the abilities and forms other verbs have > defective AUX
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no longer inflected for person, number, tense
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