wanna modal?
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| Is "wanna/want to" becoming a semi-modal? |
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| I don't think so. It is negated like a normal verb, by placing "don't" before it, not like a modal verb, for which you place "not" after it. |
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| No, I would agree with MollyB - it would be classed as a quasimodal, like "have to", "be going to", "have got to", and so on.... |
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I wanna go.
I wanna not go. You wanna go? You wana not go? It works modally. |
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why there is no shorter form for NEED TO (needa?)
I needa go. I don't needa go. You needa go? You don't needa go? |
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| There is but it just isn't written so. It never came to the speakers in the whim. |
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Isn't wanna still conjugated in the third person singular:
I wanna go. He ?wantsta? go. Does this disqualify it as a modal? |
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| The term is "quasimodal" - it is not a classical present-preterite modal, but it still has a modal-like grammaticalized function nonetheless. |
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<Does this disqualify it as a modal? >
Don't forget I said "is it becoming a semi-modal". I didn't say it was one. |