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The construction of emotional meaning in language. [PDF]

open access: yesCommun Psychol
Hoemann K   +6 more
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Modal auxiliary verbs

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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Three modal verbs

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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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

2023
Claudia Ross   +4 more
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Modality and modal verbs in translation

2010
The 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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