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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Modal verbs"”.
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Semi-Lexical Heads in Czech Modal Structures
… for a semi-lexical interpretation of Czech modal verbs. It demonstrates that Czech modals participate in syntactic structures that contain a finite verb followed by multiple infinitives (verb clusters), such as Jan musel chtít začít studovat lingvistiku ‘John had to want to begin studying …
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Extending the Morpheme Order Studies: Acquisition of Modal and Non-Modal Verbal Morphemes by ESL Learners
… study extends the scope of morphemes to include modal verbs within other verbal morphemes and studies the order of their acquisition. Discourse Completion Tests (DCTs) were used to examine a total of twenty-seven ESL learners from a wide range of L1 backgrounds: <em>Japanese, Arabic, Chinese, …
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A variação entre formas de futuro do pretérito e de pretérito imperfeito no português informal no Rio de Janeiro
… of this phenomenum of variation in what concerns modal verbs.
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Hedging in Written Academic Discourse: a cross-linguistic and cross-disciplinary study /
… research is limited to certain lexical hedges: modal verbs, lexical verbs and adverbials, which are analysed within the conceptual categories of epistemic modality, evidentiality and vagueness. The results of the research suggest that the variety of hedging devices is determined by the …
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"Squash, tilt, drag, split, turn..." An intervention study examining children's collaborative talk and reasoning about shape, space and measure
… “because”, “I think”, “I agree/disagree” and modal verbs remained similar from session one to session two, there was a significant increase in the use of modal verbs following the prompt (p < .05). Swift surface-level agreements were probed further after a group consensus had been reached. …
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Strange Attitudes on Top
This dissertation investigates how attitude verbs of belief and desire engage with embedded material of a similar nature. Chapter 1 looks at the (cross-linguistically unusual) Slovenian existential doxastic attitude verb dopuščati (‘allow for the possibility’) and the embedding of epistemic modal …
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¿Opiniones, normas o pura necesidad?: La modalidad deóntica y la modalidad dinámica a través de deber y tener que
… focuses on the notions of deontic and dynamic modality in Spanish and how they are expressed through the modal verbs deber ‘must’ and tener que ‘have to’. The analysis is based on a corpus of political debates from the European Parliament, conducted 2010‒2011 by Spanish MEPs. In total, 578 …
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Modality and facivity : One perspective on the meaning of the English modal auxiliaries
This study concentrates on modality as expressed by the set of modal auxiliaries and seeks to establish that these verbs share semantic as well as syntactic properties by identifying a single core meaning which they share. The relationship between modality and factivity is examined with the aim of …
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The expression of rights and obligations in German contracts
… in German contracts. It is therefore a study of modality within the specific legal context of contract. The purpose of the investigation is to uncover the actual realisation pattern of the modalities involved in creating contractual rights and obligations and to see how this differs from the …
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Infinitives
… of clauses involving auxiliaries and modals. The dissertation challenges the idea that control infinitives are represented uniformly by a clausal (CP) structure. It is argued that control infinitives of a certain well-defined class are best analyzed as simple VP-complements that do not …
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Thai second language writing: the development of language knowledge and cross-cultural influence
… Thai writers to make relatively frequent use of modal verbs with a deontic function when writing on certain topics and to be more indirect and less explicit when expressing opinions. The findings of the study have implications for both assessment and teaching. Assessment tools for both EMT and …
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The Differential Effects of Explicit and Implicit Instruction: Focusing on the L2 Acquisition of Epistemic Stance by Japanese EFL Learners.
… the whole domain of epistemic stance (cognitive verbs, evidential verbs, modal verbs, modal adverbs and epistemic expressions). Free production data (spoken and written) was collected from the participants shortly before the intervention (pre-test), soon after the intervention (post-test) and …
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(De)coding Modality : The Case of Must, May, Måste and Kan
… study investigates the mechanisms of (de)coding modality, focusing on the interpretation of utterances containing the modals must, may, måste, and kan. The main research question posed in this study is what enables the interlocutors to interpret modal expressions so that communicative goals are …