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International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 2009
Between the 1960’s and 1990’s the frequency of modal verbs in the Brown family of corpora fell substantially, a decline which Leech (2003: 96) suggests is indicative of a more “general and long lasting trend”. Taking Leech’s study as a starting point, this paper investigates twentieth century changes in modal verbs using the new and relatively ...
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Between the 1960’s and 1990’s the frequency of modal verbs in the Brown family of corpora fell substantially, a decline which Leech (2003: 96) suggests is indicative of a more “general and long lasting trend”. Taking Leech’s study as a starting point, this paper investigates twentieth century changes in modal verbs using the new and relatively ...
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1994
This chapter discusses the following commonly occurring auxiliary verbs: poder to be able to, to be allowed to, can, could saber to know how to querer to want soler to be in the habit of deber must, ought to, should haber (que, de) to have ...
John Butt, Carmen Benjamin
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This chapter discusses the following commonly occurring auxiliary verbs: poder to be able to, to be allowed to, can, could saber to know how to querer to want soler to be in the habit of deber must, ought to, should haber (que, de) to have ...
John Butt, Carmen Benjamin
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2001
We describe and compare the historical development and the current properties of German brauchen, Dutch hoeven and English need . Etymologically unrelated, these verbs have all developed from content verbs into auxiliary verbs, or have at least acquired the possibility to be used as auxiliaries.
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We describe and compare the historical development and the current properties of German brauchen, Dutch hoeven and English need . Etymologically unrelated, these verbs have all developed from content verbs into auxiliary verbs, or have at least acquired the possibility to be used as auxiliaries.
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Truthmaker semantics for natural language: Attitude verbs, modals, and intensional transitive verbs
Theoretical Linguistics, 2020Friederike Moltmann
exaly
Taming English modals: How a Construction Grammar approach helps to understand modal verbs
, 2019Sergio Torres Martínez
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A Corpus-Based Study of Modal Verbs Use in English Writing by EFL Learners
, 2017Qian Li
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