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Modal better: A corpus‐based investigation in world Englishes

open access: yesWorld Englishes, Volume 44, Issue 3, Page 318-338, September 2025.
Abstract While previous studies have investigated the productivity of the better construction (in the forms had better, ’d better and better) in British and US English (USE), to present knowledge, no large‐scale comparisons on the use of this construction in other English dialects have been carried out.
Carmelo Alessandro Basile
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