On Modality in English: A Study of the Semantics of the Modals |
Contents
1 On modality and modals | 9 |
PREVIOUS WORK ON THE ENGLISH MODALS | 15 |
CHAPTER | 53 |
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Common terms and phrases
able ABLE+POSS adverb ambiguity American English basic meaning Boyd and Thorne Brown Corpus CERT certainty Chapter combination componential analysis components context counterfactual dalities difference discussed distinction Ehrman Eilert Ekwall English modals epistemic senses equivalence relations event examples exemplified exponent External Modalities fact frequency future grammarians grammatical person help his friends Huddleston HYPO HYPO:C hypothetical idiomatic implies indicated infinitive interpretation inversion system John Joos language Leech linguistic main clause main verb Middle English modal forms modal occurs modals expressing modulation Necessity Neutral Modalities non-past Obligation overtone Palmer paraphrase past PERM Permission permitted phrase polysemy POSS possible prediction present probable reference relations of implication Scale of External seems seen semantic sentence sentence elements Sonia speaker Sports Cultural Letters statement subclause subjunctive SUGGEST surface subject Svartvik synonymy syntactic tence tense TENTATIVEly speaking texts that-clause tion tomorrow type of negation volition words