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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
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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
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Where does the modality of Ancient Greek modal verbs come from?: The relation between modality and oblique case marking [PDF]
, 2018 Modality can be expressed through a variety of different linguistic means within and across languages, of which one manifestation is through noncanonical case marking of the subject.
S. Danesi, Johnson, Jóhanna Barðdal
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Modality in the moves of the discussion section of research articles
Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2023 Various studies have been conducted on the rhetorical mechanism of Research Articles (RAs). However, the use of modal verbs in the Discussion section of a Research Article (RA) has not been adequately addressed.
Ali Mansouri Nejad +1 more
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Might and might not: Children's conceptual development and the acquisition of modal verbs
Semantics and Linguistic Theory, 2022 When a child acquires her first modal verbs, is she learning how to map words in the language she is learning onto innate concepts of possibility, necessity, and impossibility? Or does she also have to construct modal concepts?
Brian Leahy, Eimantas Zalnieriunas
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Semantic Mapping of Middle Persian Zoroastrian Modal Verbs based on Typological View [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایران, 2023 This article examines the Zoroastian Middle Persian modal verbs in terms of typology. The type of research is qualitative and its method is descriptive-analytical. The framework in this study is adapted from Nauze.
Narjes Banou Sabouri, Shahla Sharifi
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East-West Cultural Passage, 2022 The article introduces and discusses a computer-assisted study that seeks to shed light on the frequency and use of the central modal verbs (can, could, may, might, must, shall, should, will, would) in research article (further: RA) abstracts in applied ...
Oleksandr (Alexander) Kapranov
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DIFFICULTIES IN TEACHING GERMAN MODAL VERBS TO ECONOMICS STUDENTS [PDF]
Annals of the University of Oradea: Economic Science, 2023 Modal verbs are an important chapter in learning German. The paper presents how the modal verbs are thought to the economics students in our university, emphasizing the common mistakes of the students and possible measures the teacher should take in ...
Adina SĂCARA-ONIŢA +1 more
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Modal verbs in academic papers in the field of tourism
Revista Signos, 2021 10.4067/S0718-09342021000200549 Abstract The present study examines modal verb meanings and variation in these verbs in a corpus of texts in the field of tourism.
Francisco J. Álvarez-Gil +1 more
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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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