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The variability of modal verbs

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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

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

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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A Corpus-Based Study of Modal Verbs in the Uniform Commercial Code of the USA

International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 2019
Jian Li
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Children's epistemic inferences through modal verbs and prosody

Journal of Child Language, 2020
This 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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A systemic functional study of modal verbs in the Chinese clause

, 2020
Previous 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, 2006
This 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, 2014
Abstract 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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