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‘Good’ Is ‘Possible’: A Case Study of the Modal Uses of ‘Good’ in Shaoxing

Languages, 2023
This paper sets out to investigate the modal uses of the lexeme hɒ3 ‘good’ in the Jidong Shaoxing variety of Wu and to reconstruct its grammaticalization pathway. Modal meanings of hɒ3 include circumstantial possibility, deontic possibility and necessity,
Shanshan Lü, Xiao Huang
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A corpus-based study on deontic modality in Competition Law: Insights from the English-Greek language pair

Estudios de Traducción, 2020
This study investigates deontic modality, the grammatical category through which legal texts express mainly obligation and permission, in an English-Greek bilingual corpus composed of legislative texts related to European Union (EU) Competition Law ...
Stavros Kozobolis
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MODAL VALUES OF VERBAL FORMS IN THE EUROPEAN CHARTER FOR REGIONAL OR MINORITY LANGUAGES. A LINGUISTIC COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH, ITALIAN AND SPANISH VERSIONS

Comparative Legilinguistics, 2014
The present paper analyses the verbal expression of deontic, epistemic and performative values in the English, Italian and Spanish versions of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, a treaty of the Council of Europe which aims to ...
Mariangela COPPOLELLA
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Negation, Polarity, and Deontic Modals [PDF]

Linguistic Inquiry, 2013
Universal deontic modals may vary with respect to whether they scope over or under negation. For instance, English modals like must and should take wide scope with respect to negation; modals like have to and need to take narrow scope. Similar patterns have been attested in other languages.
Iatridou, Sabine, Zeijlstra, Hedde
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Impersonal Modal Verbs in Middle Persian Zoroastrian [PDF]

زبان پژوهی
Modality is of fundamental importance in studying the structure of all languages worldwide. Providing a comprehensive definition of this notion is difficult. In general, modality expresses the speaker's point of view towards the statement in the sentence.
Narjes Sabouri, Belghis Rovshan
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Modalidade deôntica e construção argumentativa nas Cartas Apostólicas do Papa Francisco uma análise semântico-discursiva da deonticidade

Revista Odisséia, 2020
In this article, we seek to investigate the semantic-discursive aspects of the deontic modality in the Pope Francis’ Apostolic Letterswritten in Spanish language between the years 2013 and 2019.
André Silva Oliveira
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From evaluative to deontic predication: Evidence for the grammaticalization path from clausal complementation strategies

Kalbotyra
A shift from evaluation (‘it is good, fitting’, etc.) to deontic modality is well known from the literature on grammaticalization. This article looks at it from the viewpoint of complementation.
Axel Holvoet
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(Non)epistemic modality: English must, have to and have got to and their correspondences in Lithuanian

Kalbotyra, 2017
This paper deals with the three types of modality – epistemic, deontic and dynamic. It examines the relation between the synchronic uses of the modal auxiliary must and the semi-modals have to and have got to as well as their Lithuanian translation ...
Audronė Šolienė
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O času a způsobu modálních sloves v italštině ve srovnání s angličtinou [PDF]

Časopis pro Moderní Filologii, 2020
The article deals with Italian and English modal auxiliaries, considered as non-grammatical competitors of grammatical means, i.e. the verbal mood, acting as indicators of different modal meanings.
Eva Klímová
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DEONTIC MODALITY AND MODALS IN THE LANGUAGE OF CONTRACTS

Comparative Legilinguistics, 2017
The purpose of this paper is to present most typical methods of expressing deontic modality, namely obligation, prohibition and permission in Polish, American and British contracts.
Aleksandra MATULEWSKA
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