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The REVERE project:Experiments with the application of probabilistic NLP to systems engineering [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
Despite natural language’s well-documented shortcomings as a medium for precise technical description, its use in software-intensive systems engineering remains inescapable. This poses many problems for engineers who must derive problem understanding and
C. Rolland   +7 more
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Cinque's functional verbs in French [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This article focuses on the syntax of a number of subcategories of verb in French which are compatible with a following bare infinitive and which express various kinds of grammatical tense, mood, modality, aspect and voice, as well as such (more lexical?
Rowlett, P
core   +1 more source

Modalité des modaux du français dans les actes discours directifs dans BD Michel Vaillant en perspective sociopragmatique

open access: yesDigital Press Social Sciences and Humanities, 2019
This research aims to describe the type of modality of French modal verbs in directive speech acts in the comic Michel Vaillant and find its meaning.
Yuliantini, Yuliantini   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Zum Gebrauch des Modalverbs können im fachinternen medizinischen Diskurs [PDF]

open access: yesBeiträge zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Sprachwissenschaft, 2017
Modal verbs are language phenomena that have been in the centre of linguistic attention for years. They are characterised by grammatical, semantic and functional flexibility. Yet research on the use of modal verbs in specialised discourse is scarce.
Bogusława Rolek
doaj   +1 more source

An Exploratory Study of Epistemic Modal Verbs in Results and Conclusions Sections of the Three Sub-corpora of Humanities & Social Sciences: Implications for L2 Academic Writing

open access: yesInternational Journal of Educational Spectrum, 2022
In this study, the use of epistemic modality in the category of modal verbs was comparatively examined in the results and conclusions sections of journal articles written in the discipline of Humanities & Social Sciences.
Pınar Karahan
doaj   +1 more source

Between the historical languages and the reconstructed language : an alternative approach to the Gerundive + “Dative of Agent” construction in Indo-European [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
It is argued by Hettrich (1990) that the “dative of agent” construction in the Indo-European languages most likely continues a construction inherited from Proto-Indo-European.
Barddal, Johanna   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

Verbs, Time, and Modality* [PDF]

open access: yesCognitive Science, 1977
In the first part of this paper it is argued that Vendler's classification of verbs into aspectual categories, called activities, accomplishments, achievements, and states, is better seen as classifying the meanings of sentences, and a recursive scheme for describing the aspectual character of sentences is presented.In the second part, this scheme is ...
openaire   +1 more source

MODALNOŚĆ EPISTEMICZNA – ANALIZA KORPUSOWA WYKŁADNIKÓW MODALNOŚCI EPISTEMICZNEJ W WYROKACH UNIJNYCH I KRAJOWYCH [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The aim of this paper is to establish the repertoire and distribution of verbal and adverbial exponents of epistemic modality in English- and Polish-language judgments passed by the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) and non-translated judgments passed by
KOŹBIAŁ, Dariusz
core   +2 more sources

No Can Do Modal Verbs

open access: yesELOPE, 2008
The paper presents the systems of modal verbs in Slovene and English, and it focuses on comprehension and usage problems that advanced students of English may have when dealing with modal verb constructions.
Gašper Ilc
doaj   +1 more source

Clean Cut (adaptive, multimodal surgical infection prevention programme) for low‐resource settings: a prospective quality improvement study

open access: yesBJS (British Journal of Surgery), EarlyView., 2020
Clean Cut is a multimodal, adaptive, checklist‐based infection prevention programme designed to improve compliance with six critical perioperative infection prevention practices. After introducing the programme at five hospitals in Ethiopia, compliance with critical infection prevention standards significantly improved and the relative risk of ...
J. A. Forrester   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

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