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The necessitive impersonal REIK(Ė)TI ‘need’: the rise of modal meaning
Lietuvių Kalba, 2017 The focus of the paper is on the frequency, distribution patterns and semantic profile of the necessitive impersonal reik(ė)ti ‘need’ in old and contemporary Lithuanian texts.
Erika Jasionytė-Mikučionienė +1 more
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Modal verbs in South Asian online Englishes: must, (have) got to, have to and need to
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract This research article presents an analysis of four (semi‐)modals of necessity/obligation (must, (have) got to, have to and need to) in four CMC registers (comments, tweets, web forums and websites) originating from four South Asian countries (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) along with the United Kingdom and United States.
Muhammad Shakir
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Deontic Modals and Context in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter
آداب الكوفة, 2022 The present study aims at investigating the effect of context on the use of deontic modals within the first part of J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, that is 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone'.
احمد الكلابي +1 more
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Evidence Sensitivity in Weak Necessity Deontic Modals [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical Logic, 2013 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
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The double modal construction in English world wide
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract The dual foci of the present study of double modals are their semantic characteristics and their distribution across regional varieties of English world wide. Tokens were extracted from GloWbE:Blogs, a database whose great size and informal tenor facilitated the investigation of this low‐frequency non‐standard feature. Double modals were found
Peter Collins, Adam Smith
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Comparative Legilinguistics, 2016 The aim of this article is to highlight an issue of expressing deontic modality in Finnish and Polish in a legal context in terms of deontic strength.
Joanna RYDZEWSKA-SIEMIĄTKOWSKA
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Deontic modality and media discourse
, 2017 This work aims at analyzing the deontic modality in the media discourse, seeking to integrate the contextual, pragmatic, semantic and morphosyntatic aspects. With the theoretical support of the Discourse Functional Grammar (HENGEVELD; MACKENZIE, 2008), we make an integrated analysis of the manifestation of variables related to the context, as well as ...
Prata, Nadja Paulino Pessoa +1 more
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Alternation of must, have to, and need to in English as a lingua franca
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract This study explores the grammatical variability of modal auxiliary verbs in English as a lingua franca. Focusing on the ongoing change must, have to, and need to, this research utilizes two spoken corpora: the Vienna–Oxford International Corpus of English (VOICE) and the Asian Corpus of English (ACE).
Chunyuan Nie +2 more
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Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2021 The document titled “14 points of Wilson” was announced by the President of the United States Woodrow Wilson in his speech addressed to the United States Congress on 8th January 1918.
Matulewska Aleksandra +1 more
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Exploring Modality in Analytical Exposition Texts: A Study of Senior High School Students' Writing
Journal of Applied Linguistics and LiteratureThis study examines the application of modality in analytical exposition texts written by senior high school students, focusing on how different modalities convey ideas, judgments, and attitudes.
Siti Khairani Ritonga +2 more
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