Modal Expressions in English |
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Introduction | 1 |
QuasiAuxiliary Modal Expressions | 59 |
Adjectival Participial and Nominal Modal Expressions | 71 |
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addressee adjectival analysis appear argued assertion boulomaic cent at age Chapter child language clause complement condition context of utterance core meaning deontic modality deontic source directive discussion distinction empirical circumstances English modal epistemic modality event evidence example expres expressing modality expression of modality fact factive formally explicit four-minute mile framework frequently function gerundive GOT)TO HAVE(GOT)TO IF-clauses illocutionary force infinitival interpretation K(C entails K(C is disposed Kuczaj language development linguistic devices Lyons modal adverbs modal auxiliary verbs modal expressions modal lexical verbs modality in English morpheme natural laws/C negated negative nominal expressions non-actuality non-factivity noted notion occur Palmer past tense forms Piaget polysemy Polytechnic of Wales pragmatic preclude pro-verb proposed proposition rational laws/C referred regarded relative represented as K(C restricted seen semantic sentence sions social laws/C speaker specific spontaneous speech subcategory suggests suppletive syntactic tag questions TO/THAT Wales Language whereas