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Digital 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
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Zum Gebrauch des Modalverbs können im fachinternen medizinischen Diskurs [PDF]
Beiträge 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
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International 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
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Auxiliary selection and counterfactuality in the history of English and Germanic [PDF]
, 2006 The retreat of BE as perfect auxiliary in the history of English is examined. Corpus data are presented showing that the initial advance of HAVE was most closely connected to a restriction against BE in past counterfactuals. Other factors which have been
Alexiadou, Artemis, McFadden, Thomas
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Verbs, Time, and Modality* [PDF]
Cognitive 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 ...
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Frequency and Variability in the Use of Modal Verbs in Zimbabwean English
Corpus PragmaticsThis corpus-based exploratory study examines modal verbs in Zimbabwean English (ZimE), and British English, to determine whether there are variations in use between the two varieties.
Faith Chiedza Chapwanya, J. Nel
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ELOPE, 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
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“Arguments That Could Possibly Be Urged”: Modal Verbs and Tentativeness in the Coruña Corpus
Languages, 2019 This paper complements previous research into the late Modern English scientific writing uses of the adverbs possibly and perhaps as manifestations of either subjectivity or intersubjectivity, as presented in the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific ...
Isabel Moskowich, B. Crespo
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Use of Modal Verbs as Stance Markers in Pakistani English Newspaper Editorials
Online Journal of Communication and Media Technologies, 2019 This study investigates the use of modal verbs as stance markers in Pakistani English newspaper editorials. For this purpose, corpora of 1000 editorials have been developed from the editorials published in The News, The Dawn, The Frontier and The Express
Muhammad Ahmad +3 more
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MODALNOŚĆ EPISTEMICZNA – ANALIZA KORPUSOWA WYKŁADNIKÓW MODALNOŚCI EPISTEMICZNEJ W WYROKACH UNIJNYCH I KRAJOWYCH [PDF]
, 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
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