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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.
Lexi Xiaoduo Li
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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.
Lexi Xiaoduo Li
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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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Translation of Modal Verbs in Media Texts: Corpus-Based Approach

Научный диалог, 2023
The main modal verbs of the English language (can, could, may, must, should, need, will, would) in media texts have been studied, namely the ways of their translation into Russian.
Ya. A. Volkova, A. S. Korzin, A. D. Uryupina   +2 more
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Modal auxiliary verb constructions in East African Bantu languages

Journal of African Languages and Literatures, 2022
In this article we offer an overview of the use of modal auxiliary verb constructions in East African Bantu (encompassing languages spoken from eastern Congo in the north-west to northern Mozambique in the south-east; viz.
Rasmus Bernander, Maud Devos, Hannah Gibson   +2 more
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Modal Verbs in the Modern Chinese Language

Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2021
The article presents a new view on Chinese modal verbs as a part of speech. Based on the typology of the Chinese language, the authors analyzed modal verbs according to their functional-syntactic, formal-morphological, and semantic features in order of ...
O. N. Sadovnikova, I. V. Sharavieva
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Modal Verbs of Obligation in Quotations and Political Discourse

Armenian Folia Anglistika, 2016
This article discusses the modal verbs of obligation and their function in quotations and political discourse. The usage of modal verbs in speeches strengthens the impact on people, because they emphasize what people should, must, ought to and have to do.
Lusine Zakalashvili, Naira Avagyan
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Modalité des modaux du français dans les actes discours directifs dans BD Michel Vaillant en perspective sociopragmatique

Digital Press Social Sciences and Humanities, 2019
This research aims to describe the type of modality of French modal verbs in directive speech acts in the comic Michel Vaillant and find its meaning.
Yuliantini, Yuliantini, Sumarlam, Sumarlam, Wiratno, Tri   +2 more
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Zum Gebrauch des Modalverbs können im fachinternen medizinischen Diskurs [PDF]

Beiträge zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Sprachwissenschaft, 2017
Modal verbs are language phenomena that have been in the centre of linguistic attention for years. They are characterised by grammatical, semantic and functional flexibility. Yet research on the use of modal verbs in specialised discourse is scarce.
Bogusława Rolek
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An Exploratory Study of Epistemic Modal Verbs in Results and Conclusions Sections of the Three Sub-corpora of Humanities & Social Sciences: Implications for L2 Academic Writing

International Journal of Educational Spectrum, 2022
In this study, the use of epistemic modality in the category of modal verbs was comparatively examined in the results and conclusions sections of journal articles written in the discipline of Humanities & Social Sciences.
Pınar Karahan
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