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A Corpus-Based Study of Modal Verbs in the Uniform Commercial Code of the USA
International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 2019Jian Li
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Children's epistemic inferences through modal verbs and prosody
Journal of Child Language, 2020This study explores how young children infer nuances in epistemic modality through prosody. A forced-choice task was used, testing children's (ages three to seven) comprehension of the might/will distinction (modal condition) as well their ability to ...
M. Armstrong
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, 2016 A systemic functional study of modal verbs in the Chinese clause
, 2020Previous studies of Chinese modal verbs in the traditional framework (e.g. Lu 2004 ; Peng 2007 ; Tang 2000 ; Tiee 1985 ; Tsang 1981 ; Xie 2002 ; Xu 2007 ) have mainly focused on the description of semantic and syntactic features of modals that occur in ...
Shu Yang
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Modality and modal verbs in contrast
Languages in Contrast, 2006This paper addresses the question of how English and Spanish encode the modal meanings of possibility and necessity. English modals and Spanish modal periphrases emerge as ‘cross-linguistic equivalents’ in this area. Data from two monolingual ‘comparable’ corpora — the Bank of English and CREA — reveal (i) differences in grammatical conceptualization ...
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Modal verbs and modal constructions in Ladakhi
Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics, 2014Abstract The paper describes different types of modal expressions, particularly expressions of ability, in Ladakhi, a Tibetic language spoken in Ladakh, Jammu & Kashmir, India. A special focus lies on the unexpected syntactic behaviour of complex modal verb constructions, where the semantics of both the modal verb and the event verb ...
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Modality and modal verbs in translation
2010The paper reports on findings from a recent study. On the basis of corpora, two legislative pair texts, the paper deals with the cross-linguistic issues about modals and modality in Croatian and English. In addressing the issue of modality in the two texts, the paper focuses on the semantic areas that include obligation and whether or not something is ...
Knežević, Božana, Brdar, Irena
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Journal of Linguistics, 1969
In this paper we propose an analysis of the semantic structure of modal sentences in English. Central to this analysis is the notion of ‘speech act’. The notion of speech act derives principally from the work of J. L. Austin (cf. especially Austin, 1962).
Julian Boyd, J. P. Thorne
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In this paper we propose an analysis of the semantic structure of modal sentences in English. Central to this analysis is the notion of ‘speech act’. The notion of speech act derives principally from the work of J. L. Austin (cf. especially Austin, 1962).
Julian Boyd, J. P. Thorne
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Modal verbs in long verb clusters
2009This contribution explores the historical development of modal verbs in Dutch. As opposed to their English counterparts, modals in present-day Dutch may be non-finite, and may appear under other auxiliaries in long verb clusters. This was not the case in Old Germanic languages.
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MODAL VERBS AND MODE: THE GRAMMATICAL PHENOMENON THE MODAL VERBS AND MODALITY
Route Educational and Social Science Journal, 2021openaire +1 more source