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.
Yifan Zhang, Andrew K. F. Cheung
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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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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.
Lexi Xiaoduo Li
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A Bayesian probabilistic analysis of the use of English modal verbs in L2 writing: Focusing on L1 influence and topic effects [PDF]
HeliyonModal 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
Fatih Ünal Bozdağ +2 more
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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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MODAL VERBS VS MODAL COPULA-VERBS
Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University, 2018 O. Griva
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A Semantic Survey on Modal Verbs in Todays' Persian Language from a Typological Point of View [PDF]
نشریه پژوهشهای زبانشناسی, 2021 This study aimed at investigating the semantic aspect of modal verbs in today’s Persian language from a typological perspective, which provided us with an opportunity to compare the meanings of Persian modal verbs with those of the other languages.
Shahla Sharifi, Narjes Banou Sabouri
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Los verbos modales en español desde la perspectiva langackeriana [PDF]
Studia Romanistica, 2022 This article presents the problem of modal verbs in Spanish from the perspective of Langacker’s cognitive grammar. It focuses on the fundamental terms and deals with the problematic point of the theory: the temporal grounding of modal verbs ...
Adéla Smažíková
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Španělská modální slovesa z perspektivy R. W. Langackera: otázka konceptualizátora [PDF]
Časopis pro Moderní Filologii, 2023 This article presents the problem of modal verbs in Spanish from the perspective of Langacker’s cognitive grammar. Langacker defines modal verbs as grounding elements that can express implicit meanings and thus increase the degree of subjectivity of the ...
Adéla Smažíková
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Modal Verbs in English-Medium Research Articles on the Issue of Climate Change and Health
Acta Marisiensis. Philologia, 2023 The article introduces a quantitative study that examines how modality, which is associated with modal verbs (e.g., must, would, etc.), is represented in English-medium research articles (henceforth – RAs) that are published in specialised scientific ...
Oleksandr Kapranov
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