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2001
We describe and compare the historical development and the current properties of German brauchen, Dutch hoeven and English need . Etymologically unrelated, these verbs have all developed from content verbs into auxiliary verbs, or have at least acquired the possibility to be used as auxiliaries.
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We describe and compare the historical development and the current properties of German brauchen, Dutch hoeven and English need . Etymologically unrelated, these verbs have all developed from content verbs into auxiliary verbs, or have at least acquired the possibility to be used as auxiliaries.
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Modality and modal verbs in contrast
Languages in Contrast, 2006This paper addresses the question of how English and Spanish encode the modal meanings of possibility and necessity. English modals and Spanish modal periphrases emerge as ‘cross-linguistic equivalents’ in this area. Data from two monolingual ‘comparable’ corpora — the Bank of English and CREA — reveal (i) differences in grammatical conceptualization ...
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Modality and modal verbs in translation
2010The paper reports on findings from a recent study. On the basis of corpora, two legislative pair texts, the paper deals with the cross-linguistic issues about modals and modality in Croatian and English. In addressing the issue of modality in the two texts, the paper focuses on the semantic areas that include obligation and whether or not something is ...
Bogunović, Irena, Knežević, Božana
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Modal verbs in long verb clusters
2009This contribution explores the historical development of modal verbs in Dutch. As opposed to their English counterparts, modals in present-day Dutch may be non-finite, and may appear under other auxiliaries in long verb clusters. This was not the case in Old Germanic languages.
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International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 2009
Between the 1960’s and 1990’s the frequency of modal verbs in the Brown family of corpora fell substantially, a decline which Leech (2003: 96) suggests is indicative of a more “general and long lasting trend”. Taking Leech’s study as a starting point, this paper investigates twentieth century changes in modal verbs using the new and relatively ...
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Between the 1960’s and 1990’s the frequency of modal verbs in the Brown family of corpora fell substantially, a decline which Leech (2003: 96) suggests is indicative of a more “general and long lasting trend”. Taking Leech’s study as a starting point, this paper investigates twentieth century changes in modal verbs using the new and relatively ...
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