Categorization principles of modal meaning categories: a critical assessment

This paper offers a critical analysis of the features used to define categories of modal meaning (expressed by modal verbs). First, Palmer’s (1990) and Huddleston and Pullum et al’s (2002) definition of dynamic modality is compared with the taxonomic approach to that area of modal meaning in Depraet...

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Main Author: Ilse Depraetere
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires du Midi 2015-07-01
Series:Anglophonia
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/anglophonia/476
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