Modal Verbs from a Crosslinguistic Perspective
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Modal Verbs from a Crosslinguistic Perspective
Original language description
This paper analyses modal verbs in selected languages in terms of their morphological and syntactic properties. It deals in detail with English modal verbs, demonstrating that they form quite a homogenous group. Furthermore, the paper explores propertiesof modal verbs in other languages (Germanic, Slavonic, Romance, Hungarian, Balto-Finnic, Turkic and Chinese), demonstrating that, contrary to their English counterparts, modals in the majority of languages form quite heterogeneous groups with respect totheir morphological and syntactic properties, such as conjugation, subcategorization and agreement. In other words, the paper demonstrates that the category of modal verbs cannot be crosslinguistically based on formal grounds. The paper also shows thatmodal verbs are found predominantly in Indo-European languages, whereas other languages frequently employ other grammatical means to express modal meanings.
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Classification
Type
D - Article in proceedings
CEP classification
AI - Linguistics
OECD FORD branch
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Continuities
V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju
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Publication year
2015
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Article name in the collection
From Theory to Practice 2013: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Anglophone Studies
ISBN
978-80-7454-450-7
ISSN
1805-9899
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Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
79-88
Publisher name
Univerzita Tomáše Bati ve Zlíně
Place of publication
Zlín
Event location
Zlín
Event date
Sep 5, 2013
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
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