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Tagging and Labelling Portuguese Modal Verbs [PDF]
International Conference on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, 2014 We present in this paper an experiment in automatically tagging a set of Portuguese modal verbs with modal information. Modality is the expression of the speaker’s (or the subject’s) attitude towards the content of the sentences and may be marked with lexical clues such as verbs, adverbs, adjectives, but also by mood and tense.
Paulo Quaresma +3 more
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Modal verbs in TIME:Frequency changes 1923-2006
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".
Millar, Neil
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MODAL VERBS VS MODAL COPULA-VERBS
Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University, 2018 O. Griva
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A Semantic Survey on Modal Verbs in Todays' Persian Language from a Typological Point of View [PDF]
نشریه پژوهشهای زبانشناسی, 2021 This study aimed at investigating the semantic aspect of modal verbs in today’s Persian language from a typological perspective, which provided us with an opportunity to compare the meanings of Persian modal verbs with those of the other languages.
Shahla Sharifi, Narjes Banou Sabouri
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Los verbos modales en español desde la perspectiva langackeriana [PDF]
Studia Romanistica, 2022 This article presents the problem of modal verbs in Spanish from the perspective of Langacker’s cognitive grammar. It focuses on the fundamental terms and deals with the problematic point of the theory: the temporal grounding of modal verbs ...
Adéla Smažíková
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Španělská modální slovesa z perspektivy R. W. Langackera: otázka konceptualizátora [PDF]
Časopis pro Moderní Filologii, 2023 This article presents the problem of modal verbs in Spanish from the perspective of Langacker’s cognitive grammar. Langacker defines modal verbs as grounding elements that can express implicit meanings and thus increase the degree of subjectivity of the ...
Adéla Smažíková
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Modal Verbs in English-Medium Research Articles on the Issue of Climate Change and Health
Acta Marisiensis. Philologia, 2023 The article introduces a quantitative study that examines how modality, which is associated with modal verbs (e.g., must, would, etc.), is represented in English-medium research articles (henceforth – RAs) that are published in specialised scientific ...
Oleksandr Kapranov
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Modality in the moves of the discussion section of research articles
Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2023 Various studies have been conducted on the rhetorical mechanism of Research Articles (RAs). However, the use of modal verbs in the Discussion section of a Research Article (RA) has not been adequately addressed.
Ali Mansouri Nejad +1 more
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Might and might not: Children's conceptual development and the acquisition of modal verbs
Semantics and Linguistic Theory, 2022 When a child acquires her first modal verbs, is she learning how to map words in the language she is learning onto innate concepts of possibility, necessity, and impossibility? Or does she also have to construct modal concepts?
Brian Leahy, Eimantas Zalnieriunas
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Semantic Mapping of Middle Persian Zoroastrian Modal Verbs based on Typological View [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایران, 2023 This article examines the Zoroastian Middle Persian modal verbs in terms of typology. The type of research is qualitative and its method is descriptive-analytical. The framework in this study is adapted from Nauze.
Narjes Banou Sabouri, Shahla Sharifi
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