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Subject Raising in Chinese Modal Auxiliary Verb Constructions: A-movement or A′-movement?

Studies in Chinese Linguistics, 2022
Subject raising in Chinese modal auxiliary verb constructions can be either A-movement or A′-movement. Modal auxiliary verbs such as hui and yao can take a nonfinite TP complement which cannot value the abstract case of the embedded subject.
Hu Bo, Chen Hong
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No Can Do Modal Verbs

ELOPE, 2008
The paper presents the systems of modal verbs in Slovene and English, and it focuses on comprehension and usage problems that advanced students of English may have when dealing with modal verb constructions.
Gašper Ilc
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Aspect and Modality in Indonesian the Case of Sudah, Telah, Pernah, and Sempat [PDF]

, 2010
In this paper, I describe four Indonesian aspect markers, sudah, telah, pernah, and sempat, showing that the main opposition between them relies not only on their aspectual meanings, but also on the various modalities they express. The opposition between
Grangé, P. (Philippe)
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The modal verb galėti ʻcan/could/may/mightʼ in academic Lithuanian: distribution, frequency and semantic properties

Kalbotyra, 2017
The aim of the present paper is to investigate the frequency and distribution patterns as well as the spectrum of modal meanings conveyed by the Lithuanian modal verb of possibility galėti ‘can/could/may/might’ in academic Lithuanian.
Jolanta Šinkūnienė
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ISSUES OF MODAL VERBS TRANSLATION FROM ENGLISH INTO UKRAINIAN [PDF]

Вісник університету ім. А. Нобеля. Серія Філологічні науки, 2020
The article deals with the peculiarities of translating modal verbs from English into Ukrainian, as well as from Ukrainian into English. The author proceeds from the fact that when translating modal verbs it is necessary to take into account their ...
Natalia I. Talan
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The verb vajadzēt ‘to need, must’ in Latvian: its Livonian origins, modal and distributional features

Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2022
The focus of this study is on the Latvian modal verb vajadzēt ‘to need, must’ derived from the noun vajaga ‘need, necessity’ believed to be a borrowing from Livonian vajag, vajāg ‘need, necessary’.
Andra Kalnača, Ilze Lokmane
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Dialectal variation in german 3-verb clusters : a surface-oriented optimality theoretic account [PDF]

, 2004
We present data from an empirical investigation on the dialectal variation in the syntax of German 3-verb clusters, consisting of a temporal auxiliary, a modal verb, and a predicative verb. The ordering possibilities vary greatly among the dialects. Some
Schmid, Tanja, Vogel, Ralf
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Epistemic Future and epistemic modal verbs in Portuguese

Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2020
This paper discusses the semantics of two epistemic operators in Portuguese: the epistemic Future and modal verbs. The idea sustained in the literature for other languages that the epistemic Future has the same semantics as the modal verb (equivalent to)
Rui Marques
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Grammaticalization of heštan in Persian literary texts [PDF]

تاریخ ادبیات, 2021
In the Persian literary texts, the verb hesht and its present stem hel- have been used with mood's lexical meanings and grammatical function. On the other hand, the past stem of the verb is used in the form helid that is analogical formation.
Ehsan Changizi
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Curious Legal Conditionals [PDF]

, 2011
The paper examines the use of the modal verb SHALL in the if clauses of conditionals found in legal English. The study traces the history of such usages and compares them to two uses of WILL attested in the same grammatical environment: a temporal use ...
Berezowski, Leszek
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