Название: Models of Modals: From Pragmatics and Corpus Linguistics to Machine Learning
Автор: Ilse Depraetere, Bert Cappelle, Martin Hilpert, Ludovic De Cuypere
Издательство: De Gruyter
Серия: Topics in English Linguistics
Год: 2023
Страниц: 282
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub
Размер: 26.5 MB
Modal verbs in English communicate delicate shades of meaning, there being a large range of verbs both on the necessity side ( must , have to , should , ought to , need , need to ) and the possibility side ( can , may , could , might , be able to ). They therefore constitute excellent test ground to apply and compare different methodologies that can lay bare the factors that drive the speaker’s choice of modal verb. This book is not merely concerned with a purely grammatical description of the use of modal verbs, but aims at advancing our understanding of lexical and grammatical units in general and of linguistic methodologies to explore these. It thus involves a genuine effort to compare, assess and combine a variety of approaches. It complements the leading descriptive qualitative work on modal verbs by testing a diverse range of quantitative methods, while not ignoring qualitative issues pertaining to the semantics-pragmatics interface.