Search Results for: Modality In English And Chinese

Modality is a grammatical, or semantic-grammatical, category. It is an important component of human languages. This is at least the case in most European langua

A detailed account of the many uses and functions of these verbs. The nature of modality, and some controversial issues, are also discussed.

In Corpus Linguistics and Sociolinguistics, Beke Hansen analyses variation and change in the modal systems of three second-language varieties of English in Asia

This handbook offers an in depth and comprehensive state of the art survey of the linguistic domains of modality and mood. An international team of experts in t

What do we mean when we say things like 'If only we knew what he was up to!' Clearly this is more than just a message, or a question to our addressee. We are ex