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Bílková, Jana. "K postupné modální modifikaci predikátového slovesa." Korpus - gramatika - axiologie, no. 31 (June 2025): 3–13. https://doi.org/10.58756/k31252081.

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A lexical verb in the predicate position can be (and relatively often is) modified in meaning by a modal verb. The modal verb is in finite form and expresses grammatical meanings, while the lexical verb is in infinitive form and carries the main lexical meaning of the complex predicate as a whole: Všichni se můžeme bránit. (We can all defend ourselves.) It is a relatively common and stylistically neutral way of modal modification of the verb. However, two different modal meanings can also be combined within a single sentence. In such case, one modal verb appears in finite form, while the other

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Davies, Eirian. "May, might and degrees of positivity in four English sentence types." English Text Construction 5, no. 2 (2012): 230–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/etc.5.2.04dav.

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This paper develops the framework of telling and knowledge operators earlier proposed for distinctions of mood and sentence types in the lexical verb (Davies 2006) to apply to non-inferential epistemic modal verbs. It consists of two parts: the first offers some background to the approach and sets out the formal model used; the second applies this model to two modal verbs. It considers the meanings of the modal verbs may (not) and might (not) as used in four different English sentence-types, with a view to assessing the different degrees of ‘loading’ towards a positive belief that they convey.

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Suyunova, Hayriniso. "MAIN WAYS OF EXPRESSING MODALITY IN THE MODERN ENGLISH LANGUAGE." Educational Research in Universal Sciences 2, no. 4 (2023): 660–64. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7904655.

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The present article is devoted to investigation of ways of expressing modality in English. This or that meaning is to a great degree determined by communicative type of the sentence and the form of the infinitive. That is a huge problem for foreign learners of English, who make a great deal of mistakes in this field. So, the aim of the work is to show how modal verbs can be used and expressed in different situations and meanings.

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Eades, Domenyk. "Translating English modal expressions." Babel. Revue internationale de la traduction / International Journal of Translation 57, no. 3 (2011): 283–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/babel.57.3.03ead.

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Modals are a source of difficulty in translation due to the subtle and complex nature of the meanings they convey, as well as the diversity of formal means by which modal meaning is coded from one language to another. The present study sheds light on difficulties associated with the translation of modal expressions by exploring errors in the translations of a group of native Arabic-speaking translator trainees, and identifies difficulties they experienced in transferring modal meaning from an English source text (ST) to an Arabic target text (TT). Shortcomings in the skills and training of the

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Hur, Yun Cheong. "A corpus-based frequency analysis for meaning of modal verbs for effective communicative language teaching: Focusing on comparing written and spoken texts." Korea English Language Testing Association 18, no. 2 (2023): 95–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.37244/ela.2023.18.2.95.

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This study examined the frequency of using the meaning of modal verbs by comparing spoken and written texts to promote more effective communication-based learning. EFL learners experience difficulties in grasping the proper meaning of modal verbs as they can be interpreted in diverse ways. Even though the learners have learned modal verbs in school, they still need help understanding the accurate meaning of them. For a more efficient comparison of the meaning of modal verbs between spoken and written texts, this study analyzed both classic children's literature and movies based on classic chil

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Klinge, Alex. "The English modal auxiliaries: from lexical semantics to utterance interpretation." Journal of Linguistics 29, no. 2 (1993): 315–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022226700000359.

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Like so many others before it, this exposition is of the meaning of the English modal auxiliaries, which are found in utterances conveying modal meanings such as ability, possibility and permission. However, unlike the majority of its predecessors, the present rendering admits to being about more than semantics. With the five central modal auxiliaries, can, may, must, will and shall, the modals for short, as a point of departure, a framework will be formulated to shed light on some central aspects of the immense cotext and context sensitivity involved in the meaning of utterances of sentences

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Cappelle, Bert, and Ilse Depraetere. "Modal meaning in Construction Grammar." Constructions and Frames 8, no. 1 (2016): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cf.8.1.01cap.

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张, 梓洁. "Study on Modal Meaning of Modal Word “Ba Le”." Modern Linguistics 12, no. 01 (2024): 568–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.12677/ml.2024.121080.

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Devyatova, Nadezda M. "Introductory modal words and their pragmatic meanings." Philological Sciences. Scientific Essays of Higher Education, no. 1 (January 2021): 14–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.20339/phs.1-21.014.

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The article considers a group of introductory-modal words ‘вообще, вообще-то, в общем, в общем-то, вообще-то говоря’. Having the ability to express the idea of generalization, they are distinguished by their pragmatics, the subtle nuances of modus meanings and ratings. The differences relate to the speaker’s attitude to the situation and its assessment: whether the situation is presented as significant, requiring attention and effort (‘и вообще’), or as natural, ordinary (‘в общем’). In the number of units studied, the meaning “the way of expressing a thought and its design” is also significan

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Priyastuti, Maria Theresia. "Penggunaan Modal Verbs Bahasa Inggris dalam Ketrampilan Berbicara." Journal of Language and Health 1, no. 1 (2020): 11–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.37287/jlh.v1i1.97.

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This research discusses the form of modality and the meaning of modality in English learning process using role play method. This research discusses the form of modality and the meaning of modality in English learning process using role play method. Objective to describe the form of modality and to explain the meaning of modality. The form of modality that is used in speaking is deontic modality with the modal verbs such as “must, has to atau have to, should, can/could” and the meanings of modality which are found, are order/necessity modality and permission modality. Descriptive qualitative w

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Bavula, Yuliya Ivanovna. "The potential of verbs of thinking in the implementation of the modal meaning of desirability, possibility in media discourse." Litera, no. 11 (November 2023): 258–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.25136/2409-8698.2023.11.44183.

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The author, based on media texts, examines the verbs of thinking, think, decide and their derivatives. The subject of the study is the meaning of situational modality - the meaning of desirability, possibilities realized by verbs of thinking. The purpose of the work is to reveal the specifics of the modal functioning of the verbs thinking, think, decide and their derivatives. Achieving this goal is facilitated by solving the following tasks: 1) identify modal meanings realized by the verbs think and decide and their derivatives; 2) determine the conditions for the modal functioning of the abov

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Kravchenko, Evgeniya V. "CLASSIFICATIONS OF MODAL PARTICLES IN MODERN CHINESE." Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, no. 3 (2017): 26–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.22250/2410-7190_2017_3_3_26_34.

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In this article, classifications of modal particles of modern Chinese developed by Russian and Chinese researchers of grammar are discussed. The use of modal particles is one of the most characteristic features of the Chinese language. Their main functions are emotional-semantic accentuation and expression of additional meaning. Modal particles have a significant influence on the sentence translation, and can drastically change its meaning and intonation. This fact makes the modal particles of the Chinese language relevant for further studying. Abundance and variety of modal particles encourag

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Abdulxayrov, Dilshod Pulatovich. "DIE SEMANTIK DER ZEITFORM -GAN EKAN IM USBEKISCHEN." INTERNATIONAL BULLETIN OF APPLIED SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 3, no. 5 (2023): 205–9. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7898674.

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The article briefly describes the structure, formation, pronunciation and grammatical meanings of the form -gan ekan in the Uzbek language through morphological, contextual and textual analysis. In the form of adverbs and imperfective verbs serve as indicators of the five categories. In the content, the meaning of time (past tense) is associated with the adverb, the modal meaning (indirect non-observability) and the syntactic feature (relationship) are associated with the imperfective verb. No context is required to express a time value. Modal meaning manifests itself in three ways, depending

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Hornacek Banasova, Monika. "Prepositional Word Combinations with modal meaning." XLinguae 11, no. 3 (2018): 51–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.18355/xl.2018.11.03.05.

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Cui, Lan. "On the Modal Meaning of ‘-gomalgo’." Korean Language and Literature 198 (March 31, 2022): 99–122. http://dx.doi.org/10.31889/kll.2022.03.198.99.

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Donghyeok Lee. "A Modal Meaning of –eoya hada." Journal of Korean Linguistics ll, no. 76 (2015): 95–122. http://dx.doi.org/10.15811/jkl.2015..76.004.

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COATES, JENNIFER. "Modal Meaning: The Semantic–Pragmatic Interface." Journal of Semantics 7, no. 1 (1990): 53–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jos/7.1.53.

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Rossari, Corinne. "The evidential meaning of modal parentheticals." Journal of Pragmatics 44, no. 15 (2012): 2183–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2012.09.004.

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Yanovich, Igor. "Invariantist ‘might’ and modal meaning change." Linguistics and Philosophy 36, no. 2 (2013): 175–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10988-013-9133-5.

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Schoonjans, Steven. "Modal particle meanings." Review of Cognitive Linguistics 17, no. 2 (2019): 303–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/rcl.00037.sch.

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Abstract One of the challenges of modal particle research is the search for appropriate ways to describe the meanings these particles convey. As these meanings are subtle and situated at the abstract and non-propositional level of intersubjective meaning making, the function of the particles is notoriously hard to pin down. As a consequence, scholars also disagree on what the precise relation between different but related particles is. In this paper, I show that gesture analysis can shed new light on these issues. By looking at the gestures used with the German particles denn, ja, doch, eben,

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Kravchenko, Evgeniia V. "THE MODAL PARTICLE 吧 BA: EVOLUTION, FUNCTIONING PATTERNS AND BASIC MEANING". Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, № 3 (2017): 14–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.22250/2410-7190_2016_2_4_14_22.

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Many modal particles are a distinctive feature of the Chinese language. Grammar researchers pay considerable attention to the study and description of the main functions and meanings of modal particles, that present an important class of words in general grammatical structure of modern Chinese. Their use plays an significant role in terms of sentence intonation, they introduce additional shades of meaning, and can even change the meaning of the whole sentence. This article describes the history of development, features, functioning patterns, and the basic meanings of the modal particle 吧 ba th

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Xu, Zhen, and Yi Zhang. "An Analysis of Interpersonal Meaning of Modal Verbs in Abstracts from Scientific Papers: Case Study of Progress in Aerospace Sciences." International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics 7, no. 4 (2021): 167–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.18178/ijlll.2021.7.4.306.

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The aims of this study are to explore the distribution features of modal verbs in abstracts from scientific papers, analyze the reasons for those features and figure out the role modal verbs play in achieving interpersonal meaning. The study has selected 60 abstracts randomly from Progress in Aerospace Sciences from 2015 to 2019 as research samples. It combines Halliday’s value of modality with Biber et al.’s two classifications to process modal verbs. The instruments adopted in this research are AntConc 3.2.4, manual sorting and SPSS Statistics 21. Based on the results, the study finds that:

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Szymański, Leszek. "An empirical investigation into the semantic field of the Polish modal verb musieć (‘must’)." Prace Językoznawcze 27, no. 2 (2025): 23–39. https://doi.org/10.31648/pj.11298.

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The empirical study described in the article examines the semantics of the Polish modal verb musieć (‘must’). The modal verb musieć can express both root (deontic) and epistemic meanings in Polish. The first category includes obligation or necessity for an event to occur. The second category comprises expressions of the speaker’s convictions that a given event exists or has occurred. The author attempts to disambiguate the meanings of musieć contextually. The study employs concepts derived from philosophy and adapts them to investigate authentic language samples recorded in the spoken subcorpu

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Klinge, Alex. "The Impact of Context on Modal Meaning in English and Danish." Nordic Journal of Linguistics 19, no. 1 (1996): 35–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0332586500003280.

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In this article it is argued on the basis of English and Danish data that modal meanings traditionally discussed as semantic properties of the modal auxiliaries are derived from intra- and extra-sentential context. On the basis of preferred readings the article illustrates and discusses some of the central variables which determine the assignment of modal meaning to a sentence in a context of utterance.

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Abdurrahman, Israa B., Zainab J. Abdulqadir, and Zaman M. Erzooqi. "Exploring Modality Markers in Political Speeches and their Pedagogical Implications." Journal of Tikrit University for Humanities 30, no. 3, 2 (2023): 26–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.25130/jtuh.30.3.2.2023.22.

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The variety of meaning and function of the modal auxiliaries lead to an issue in relation to many speeches especially the political ones. This research aims at highlighting the modal auxiliaries in English and show their usage in conveying meaning; checkout the applicability of Randolph Quirk and Green Baum’s modal of modality to political speeches; and find out the main functions of the English modals (will and must) in relation to the occasion of political speeches and how to utilize these functions pedagogically.This research hypothesizes that English modal auxiliaries (will and must) play

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Liu, Mingya, and Stephanie Rotter. "Linguistic and Social Meaning Match: An experiment on modal concord in English." Experiments in Linguistic Meaning 3 (January 31, 2025): 224–35. https://doi.org/10.3765/elm.3.5817.

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Modal concord (MC) refers to the phenomenon where two modal elements of the same flavor and force in a sentence yield an interpretation of single modality (SM). In this paper, we report on an experimental study on MC in English, addressing their linguistic and social meaning. Our results show a strengthening effect by necessity MC and a weakening effect of possibility MC in that significantly higher speaker commitment ratings were received for necessity MC vs. SM constructions (i.e., must certainly vs. must) with the reverse pattern for possibility modal constructions (i.e., may possibly vs. m

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Ciumacenco, Valentina. "Some considerations on the semi-modal auxiliary verbs." Journal of Social Sciences II (1) (March 15, 2019): 71–78. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2606430.

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Modality as a major exponent of interpersonal relations has been extensively studied. It is mostly studied in a highly individual centered view that individual speakers and their relations to one another are central, and social relations are built up through the linguistic interactions of speakers. In most cases, a modal verb expresses the speaker’s or the author’s attitude at the time of speaking. So, it is very necessary that we learn the meaning of the modal verbs in certain contexts. This paper aims at explaining difficulties involved in the treatment o

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Dendale, Patrick. "Are "Modal Adverbs" automatically Modal Markers? The Case of French "Certainement" with its Epistemico-Modal and its Evidential Use." Anuari de Filologia. Estudis de Lingüística 10 (December 18, 2020): 39–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1344/afel.2020.10.3.

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The French adverb certainement (‘certainly’) is labelled a “modal adverb”. It has two (sentence adverb) uses according to the literature, called “strong modal use” and “weak modal use”. The strong modal use is indeed strong (epistemico-)modal in that it indicates total certainty, whether subjective or intersubjective. What is called its “weak modal use” is shown to be an evidential use. It indicates primarily that the content qualified by the adverb results from a non-monotonic inference, performed by the speaker, whose conclusions are plausible, defeasible, and thus never totally certain. Thi

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Slyambekov, K. "GRAMMATICAL REPRESENTATION OF THE CATEGORY OF MODALITY IN THE KAZAKH LANGUAGE." Tiltanym 86, no. 2 (2022): 83–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.55491/2411-6076-2022-2-83-94.

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The category of modality expresses the speaker’s attitude to the connection that he establishes between the content of a given utterance and reality, i.e., attitude to attitude. This article examines the category of modality as a phenomenon of grammatical forms and its representation. The analysis of the features of modal words, mood, modal verb forms in the transmission of modal meaning is carried out. And we are also talking about the specifics of modal meaning in other Turkic languages, including the semantic differences between the languages of Kazakh and Karakalpak. Opinions are given reg

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Averina, A. V. "German modal verbs in secondary meaning and their analogues in Russian." Linguistics & Polyglot Studies 10, no. 1 (2024): 8–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.24833/2410-2423-2024-1-38-8-21.

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The publication focuses on modal verbs of the German language in the secondary meaning and their analogues in the Russian language. The specificity of modal verbs of the German language used in the secondary meaning is that they are two-dimensional deictics and convey various types of deictic modal meanings. The purpose of this publication is to describe the typology of the meanings of modal verbs of the German language in deictic use and to reveal the question of functional equivalents in the Russian language. The hypothesis of the study was as follows: the complete functional equivalents of

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Eryomin, A. N., and O. O. Petrova. "On the temporality and modality of the internal predicates of lexical meanings (on the material of personal names)." Russian language at school 85, no. 2 (2024): 90–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.30515/0131-6141-2024-85-2-90-96.

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The article examines the lexical semantics of personal names and the modality of "internal predicates of meaning" hidden in this semantics on the material of the modern Russian language. The study is relevant due to the insufficient knowledge of the modality of internal predicates of personal names. The article aims to identify and analyse the temporal and modal semantics of internal predicates of lexical meanings. The theoretical significance of the research is determined by the observational results the authors arrive at while studying the semantics and modality of the lexical meanings of pe

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Zenedinova, Sanie Narimanovna, and Liliya Anatol'evna Dolgopolova. "Modal and semi-modal verbs in German news text." Филология: научные исследования, no. 4 (April 2025): 161–69. https://doi.org/10.7256/2454-0749.2025.4.73972.

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The article is dedicated to identifying the specifics of the functioning of modal and semi-modal verbs in media texts. The subject of the study is the structural and semantic features of modal and semi-modal verbs in modern German. The object of the study is verbs that express modality. The material for the research is an article from the news web portal of the German broadcasting organization ARD Tagesschau, published on March 4, 2025. The research tasks are: to establish the composition of modal verbs involved in text creation; to determine the types of modal and semi-modal verbs; to identif

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Szymański, Leszek. "When must not is not forbidden." Linguistics Beyond and Within (LingBaW) 9 (December 30, 2023): 197–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.31743/lingbaw.17024.

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The present paper describes an empirical investigation into an English modal predicate with the auxiliary verb must, the negative particle not and the bare infinitive of the main verb. Typically, the negator not changes the meaning of must from obligation or strong recommendation to forbiddance. This, however, takes place only with the root flavor of must. Epistemic must does not interact with not in this way. The study uses authentic language samples retrieved from the online version of The Corpus of Contemporary American English. The analysis adapts the model of the semantic field of modal e

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Xu, Zhen, and Yi Zhang. "An Analysis of Interpersonal Meaning of Modal Verbs in Abstracts from Scientific Papers: Case Study of Progress in Aerospace Sciences." LingLit Journal Scientific Journal for Linguistics and Literature 2, no. 2 (2021): 83–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.33258/linglit.v2i2.462.

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The aims of this study are to explore the distribution features of modal verbs in abstracts from scientific papers, analyze the reasons for those features and figure out the role modal verbs play in achieving interpersonal meaning. The study has selected 60 abstracts randomly from Progress in Aerospace Sciences from 2015 to 2019 as research samples. It combines Halliday’s value of modality with Biber et al.’s two classifications to process modal verbs. The instruments adopted in this research are AntConc 3.2.4, manual sorting and SPSS Statistics 21. Based on the results, the study finds that:

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Lõbus, Triin. "Võimalikkus hispaania keele modaalverbi poder ja eesti keele modaalverbide semantikas. Tõlkevastete analüüs." Eesti ja soome-ugri keeleteaduse ajakiri. Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics 7, no. 2 (2016): 125–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/jeful.2016.7.2.06.

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Kokkuvõte. Artiklis uuritakse episteemilist modaalsust hispaania ja eesti keele võimalikkusmodaalverbide semantikas. Võrdlus lähtub hispaania keele modaalverbist poder, vaadeldes selle episteemilise kasutuse tõlkevasteid ilukirjandusteostes. Analüüsi aluseks on episteemilise modaalsuse tähendusala täpsem määratlemine. Prototüüpset kõnelejakeskset (subjektiivset) võimalikkushinnangut eristatakse objektiivsest situatsioonilisest võimalikkusest, mis on episteemilise/mitte-episteemilise modaalsuse piiripealne vaheaste. See eristus võimaldab modaalverbide tähendusalasid paremini eritleda ja omavahe

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Daina, Anete. "Darbības vārdi varēt, drīkstēt un valodas ietekmējošā funkcija Latvijas Republikas Saeimas 2018. gada sēžu stenogrammās." Vārds un tā pētīšanas aspekti: rakstu krājums = The Word: Aspects of Research: conference proceedings, no. 26 (November 23, 2022): 24–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.37384/vtpa.2022.26.024.

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The study focuses on Latvian modal verbs varēt ‘can, may’ and drīkstēt ‘may’ and their ability to perform the conative function of language. Both modal verbs are studied together because varēt can be used in the sense of drīkstēt and drīkstēt meaning contains a reference to possibility. The source of research is verbatim reports (the year 2018) from the Corpus of the Saeima (parliament of Latvia). The analysis of both modal verbs is based on the determination of modal meanings and interpretation of their ability to influence. The use of modal verbs’ person and mood has been taken into account.

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Hilpert, Martin. "Change in modal meanings." Constructions and Frames 8, no. 1 (2016): 66–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cf.8.1.05hil.

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This paper discusses how modal auxiliaries fit into a constructional view of language and how this view allows us to think in new ways about diachronic meaning change in modal auxiliaries. These issues will be illustrated on the basis of a diachronic corpus-based study of the modal auxiliary may, specifically focusing on changes in its collocational preferences during the past 200 years. The main point of this paper is the claim that a constructional view needs to take account of the mutual associations between modal auxiliaries and the lexical elements with which they occur. Changes in these

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Tereshko, Ekaterina, and Rinske Sophia Vellinga. "Ways of transmitting modal meanings in Dutch-Russian translation: The case of the modal particle maar." Scandinavian Philology 21, no. 1 (2023): 73–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu21.2023.105.

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In this study, we examine the strategies translators have at their disposal to render the meaning of Dutch modal particles in the Russian language. Modal particles are difficult to translate because the meaning of these words is abstract, highly context-dependent and sometimes open to multiple interpretations. Based on parallel Dutch-Russian texts we show which strategies translators use to express the functions of the Dutch modal particle maar ‘but’ in Russian. The modal particle maar is very often omitted in translations, because it has no equivalent in Russian and the image of reality given

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Lü, Shanshan, and Xiao Huang. "‘Good’ Is ‘Possible’: A Case Study of the Modal Uses of ‘Good’ in Shaoxing." Languages 8, no. 3 (2023): 177. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/languages8030177.

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This paper sets out to investigate the modal uses of the lexeme hɒ3 ‘good’ in the Jidong Shaoxing variety of Wu and to reconstruct its grammaticalization pathway. Modal meanings of hɒ3 include circumstantial possibility, deontic possibility and necessity, and epistemic possibility. These meanings can be summarized as ‘can’, ‘may’, and ‘should’, respectively. The modal meanings of hɒ3 are derived from its meaning of ‘fit to’ rather than ‘good’. We propose here that hɒ3 first extended to express circumstantial possibility, and then further extended to denote deontic modality and participant-inte

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Van Herreweghe, Mieke. "Motan in The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records." Modal Verbs in Germanic and Romance Languages 14 (December 31, 2000): 207–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/bjl.14.12van.

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Abstract. In this paper we have tried to establish which paths the Old English modal *motan followed from Old English central meaning of permission to Modern English central meaning of obligation, by looking at peripheral meanings of *motan. The data presented here were drawn from The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records. They tell us that *motan was never used in an epistemic sense; so, diachronically, deontic *motan came first. Moreover, it becomes quite clear that the core meaning was permission, that this could be slightly amended to include ability or wish, and that obligation was only a peripheral

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Daugavet, Anna. "Latvian dabūt 'get': An acquisitive modal?" Baltic Linguistics 6 (December 31, 2015): 9–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.32798/bl.394.

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Depending on the context the Latvian verb dabūt ‘get’ expresses either necessity or possibility in combination with the infinitive, which makes it similar to what is known as “acquisitive modals” in other languages, such as Swedish and Estonian. The Latvian verb is different in that it is implicative rather than modal, i.e. the necessity or possibility that it expresses is always actualized, unless the verb is negated. The use of dabūt with the infinitive has developed from the meaning ‘onset of possession’ alongside other meanings that include ‘displacement/change of state’ and ‘unpleasant ex

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Nada, Anwar, and Alkadr Ajwan. "A Corpus-based Analysis of Modal Auxiliaries of William Golding’s Novel “The Lord of Flies”." Journal International of Lingua and Technology 2, no. 2 (2023): 90–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.55849/jiltech.v2i2.461.

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This study aimed to identify the types of modal auxiliaries and the meanings of modal auxiliaries in the novel The Lord of Flies by William Golding. This study uses mixed methods. First, this study used corpus-based quantitative data to obtain modal auxiliary in The Lord of Flies novel examined by looking at the concordance and frequency of the Ant Conc software tools. Second, the data analysis process used qualitative methods to show the function or meaning of the modal auxiliary verbs in The Lord of Flies novel. Based on data analysis, it shows that there are 549 modal auxiliary verbs in The

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Aenlle, M., Martin Juul, and R. Brincker. "Corrigendum to “Modal Mass and Length of Mode Shapes in Structural Dynamics”." Shock and Vibration 2021 (June 30, 2021): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/9821852.

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The literature about the mass associated with a certain mode, usually denoted as the modal mass, is sparse. Moreover, the units of the modal mass depend on the technique used to normalize the mode shapes, and its magnitude depends on the number of degrees of freedom (DOFs) used to discretize the model. This has led to a situation where the meaning of the modal mass and the length of the associated mode shape is not well understood. As a result, normally, both the modal mass and the length measure have no meaning as individual quantities, but only when they are combined in the frequency respons

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Yang, Jeong-seok. "Modal meaning composition in Korean auxiliary verb constructions." Language and Linguistics 72 (August 30, 2016): 117–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.20865/20167205.

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Averina, Anna Viktorovna. "Modal potential of synthetic and analytical forms of the future tense in German and Russian." Philology. Issues of Theory and Practice 17, no. 2 (2024): 466–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.30853/phil20240066.

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The study aims to identify the modal potential of synthetic and analytical forms of the future tense in German and Russian. The scientific novelty lies in the fact that the paper provides insight into the question of the functional equivalence of synthetic and analytical forms of the future tense. As a result, it has been shown that along with the future tense semantics, synthetic and analytical forms are able to convey modal complementary meanings under certain conditions. The peculiarity of the Russian language is that perfective verbs (Future Simple) can express core and non-core modal mean

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Okhrimenko, Valeria. "RELATIONS IN THE SYSTEM OF MODAL MEANINGS OF THE COGNITIVE-SEMANTIC FIELD OF NECESSITY." PROBLEMS OF SEMANTICS, PRAGMATICS AND COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS 31 (2017): 81–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/2663-6530.2017.31.07.

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The article focuses on correlation in the system of modal meanings of cognitivesemantic modal field of necessity in Italian. The system of modal meanings of modal field of necessity is organized in according to the principle of continuality and gradualism: 1) privative necessity; 2) negative willing; 3) necessity contaminated by emotiveness; 4) necessity contaminated by willing; 5) dispositive necessity (necessity contaminated by disposition); 6) deontic necessity; 7) deontic necessity of totality quantor. These modal meanings reflect a different proportion of subjective and objective factors,

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Aenlle, M., Martin Juul, and R. Brincker. "Modal Mass and Length of Mode Shapes in Structural Dynamics." Shock and Vibration 2020 (June 23, 2020): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/8648769.

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The literature about the mass associated with a certain mode, usually denoted as the modal mass, is sparse. Moreover, the units of the modal mass depend on the technique which is used to normalize the mode shapes, and its magnitude depends on the number of degrees of freedom (DOFs) which is used to discretize the model. This has led to a situation where the meaning of the modal mass and the length of the associated mode shape is not well understood. As a result, normally, both the modal mass and the length measure have no meaning as individual quantities but only when they are combined in the

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Niez, Roland A., Noel P. Tancinco, Beltram C. Sabonsolin, et al. "Exploring Interpersonal Meaning Through Linguistic Analysis: A Study of President Duterte’s Political Speech." Journal of Language Teaching and Research 16, no. 1 (2025): 43–51. https://doi.org/10.17507/jltr.1601.05.

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This paper analyzes President Rodrigo Duterte's inaugural State of the Nation Address (SONA) through the lens of Halliday's Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) to elucidate the generation and transmission of interpersonal meaning. Specifically, the research meticulously explores the nuances of mood and modal auxiliary structures employed by Duterte in his address. Through a comprehensive analysis of the distribution and usage patterns of mood and modal auxiliaries throughout the speech, the study uncovers how these linguistic elements collectively serve to articulate and amplify the speaker's in

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Imre, Attila. "A Logical Approach to Modal Verbs 3. “Must”." Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica 9, no. 3 (2017): 87–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ausp-2017-0031.

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AbstractThe article aims at a logical approach to discussing must, organized around the core meaning of necessity, split into epistemic (logical necessity) and deontic necessity (obligation). After discussing must as a central modal auxiliary, we present various meanings of must, relying on authoritative sources published for international (English), Hungarian, and Romanian students. Possible issues of teaching must are also dealt with, supported by data from a popular TV series containing modal verbs. The conclusion discusses the importance and relativity of a number of occurrences, trying to

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Abylova, A., and G. Chepekova. "Features of the Functioning of Hypothetical Modal Words in Russian and Kyrgyz Languages." Bulletin of Science and Practice 10, no. 7 (2024): 569–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.33619/2414-2948/104/70.

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The articleis devoted to one ofthe topical issues of linguistics, in particular, the peculiarities of the functioning of hypothetical modal words in the Russian and Kyrgyz languages. The main attention in this article is focused on the analysis of hypothetical modal words in the compared languages. Despite the wide interestof researchers in this problem, there are still no generalizing works that consider modal words with the meaning of assumption in modern Russian. There are practically no works devotedto the comparative analysis of the functions, semantics and functioningof hypothetical moda

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