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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 ...
Bogunović, Irena, Knežević, Božana
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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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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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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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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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Using corpus methods to analyze modal verbs in government science communication on Twitter
Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 2023Denise Coberley, Emily Dux Speltz
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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
A Corpus-Based Study of Modal Verbs in the Uniform Commercial Code of the USA
International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 2019Xinyu Wu, Jian Li
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Review and data mining of linguistic studies of English modal verbs
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 2022Jianping Yu
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