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A corpus-based study of modal verbs in Chinese–English governmental press conference interpreting [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
This study investigates the use of modal verbs in Chinese–English government press conference (GPC) interpretation. Modal verbs mark the speaker’s opinion of or attitude toward the event described in a sentence.
Cheung Kay Fan Andrew
exaly   +5 more sources

A Bayesian probabilistic analysis of the use of English modal verbs in L2 writing: Focusing on L1 influence and topic effects [PDF]

Heliyon
Modal verbs, with their multifaceted semantic nuances and varied grammatical configurations, present notable challenges for L2 learners and regularly intrigue L2 researchers. This study attempts to investigate and compare how English modal verbs are used
Junhua Mo
exaly   +5 more sources

Social changes through the lens of language: A big data study of Chinese modal verbs [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2022
Leech’s corpus-based comparison of English modal verbs from 1961 to 1992 showed the steep decline of all modal verbs together, which he ascribed to continuing changes towards a more equal and less authority-driven society.
Shan Wang, Ruhan Liu, Chu-Ren Huang
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Developmental Patterns of English Modal Verbs in the Writings of Chinese Learners of English: A Corpus-based Approach

Cogent Education, 2022
This study aims to examine how Chinese learners develop in their use and misuse of English modal verbs from Grade 7 to 9. Specifically, it examines form-function connections and explores the factors behind learners’ development.
Xiaoduo LI
exaly   +4 more sources

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
doaj   +3 more sources

Improving Modal Verb Treatment in English Textbooks Used by Chinese Learners: A Corpus-Based Approach

SAGE Open, 2022
This study demonstrates how native and learner corpora can enhance modal verb treatment in English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) textbooks used in mainland China.
Xiaoduo LI
exaly   +2 more sources

Analysis of a Grammatical Category in English—Modal Verbs ()

Open Journal of Social Sciences, 2021
This article aims at introducing the modal verbs, analysing the difficulties in teaching and providing instructional implications for teaching modals from three aspects, namely, syntax, semantics and pragmatics.
Yiming Shan
exaly   +2 more sources

Subjective and intersubjective modality: a quantitative approach to Spanish modal verbs

Studia Neophilologica, 2020
This paper presents a semantic analysis of the Spanish modal verbs deber ‘must’ and tener que ‘have to’, based on their deontic uses in parliamentary debates. These verbs have previously been described in terms of weak vs. strong necessity or internal vs.
Miriam Thegel, Josefin Lindgren
exaly   +2 more sources

Japanese EFL undergraduate students’ use of the epistemic modal verbs may, might, and could in academic writing

Language Learning in Higher Education
Modifying and hedging one’s claims appropriately is an important characteristic of academic writing. This study focuses on the three main English modal verbs used to express “epistemic possibility” to avoid making strong statements, viz., may, might, and
Willem Hollmann
exaly   +2 more sources

MODAL VERBS VS MODAL COPULA-VERBS

Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University, 2018
O. Griva
semanticscholar   +2 more sources