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The variability of modal verbs

open access: yesFilologiya məsələləri Journal of Philological Issues
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Review and data mining of linguistic studies of English modal verbs

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 2022
Modal verbs express modality, and modality is concerned with the status of the proposition that describes an event, it also expresses the opinion and attitude of a speaker toward the proposition of an utterance.
Jianping Yu
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A corpus-based investigation of modal verbs in Chinese civil-commercial legislation and its English versions

International Journal of Legal Discourse, 2018
This paper aims to investigate the distribution of semantic meanings and values of modal verbs in Chinese civil-commercial legislation and its English versions.
Jiamin Pei
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Modal verbs in Catalan

Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 1990
In this paper it is argued that Catalan sequences of a (semi)-modal verb and an infinitive, which are traditionally known as RESTRUCTURING CONSTRUCTIONS, should be analyzed as base-generated monosentential complexes. It is claimed that in such complexes the infinitive verb, not the modal or the semi-modal, is the primary predicate determining the ...
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Modal verbs

Intermediate German: A Grammar and Workbook, 2019
Anna Miell, Heiner Schenke
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On the pragmatics of modal verbs

Selected papers on theoretical and applied linguistics, 2017
This paper reflects on the nature of the contextual meaning that is often associated with modal verbs. Four examples are given of contextual effects that have been discussed in the literature: pragmatic strengthening and weakening, dynamic implication, strength of the modality and subjective vs. objective modality.
I. Depraetere
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