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Verbs, Time, and Modality* [PDF]

Cognitive Science, 1977
In the first part of this paper it is argued that Vendler's classification of verbs into aspectual categories, called activities, accomplishments, achievements, and states, is better seen as classifying the meanings of sentences, and a recursive scheme for describing the aspectual character of sentences is presented.In the second part, this scheme is ...
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Norwegian Modal Verbs and Attitudinal Modality

Scandinavistica Vilnensis, 2009
  
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What Modals Are: Modal Verbs, Modal Words, and Auxiliary Modals

European Researcher, 2013
The modals are a complicated grammatical phenomenon. As of today, the status of modals is still not precisely defined in the linguistics literature, and they are described under different names: modal verbs, modal words, auxiliary modals, or defective verbs.
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Are modal verbs adverbs?

Cahiers de praxématique
Morphologically, a modal verb is nothing more than a verb since it carries time, mood and person. However, from a functionalist perspective, we observe that the content of a modal verb, like that of an adverb, affects the relation of predication. This behavior is clearly not that of a verb, but rather that of an adverb.
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Impaired use of function words in European French-speaking children with developmental language disorder. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Le Normand MT, Thai-Van H.
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MODAL VERBS VS MODAL COPULA-VERBS

Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University, 2018
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Developmental Sentence Scoring for Preschool Language Sample Analysis: A Psychometric Update. [PDF]

Am J Speech Lang Pathol
Bernstein Ratner N, MacWhinney B, Hong Y, Yang JS.   +3 more
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UzbekPOS: A multi-domain dataset for Uzbek part-of-speech tagging. [PDF]

Data Brief
Sharipov M, Kuriyozov E, Vičič J.
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Hidden Agents, Explicit Obligations: A Linguistic Analysis of AI Ethics Guidelines. [PDF]

Sci Eng Ethics
Griffin TA, Goorman R, Green BP, Welie JVM.   +3 more
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Grounding verbs in action: The facilitative effect of potential physical interactions with verbs. [PDF]

Psychon Bull Rev
Dickinson D, Yates M.
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