Source of modality: a reassessment
Year: 2008
Type: article
Abstract: This article offers a description of the sources associated with the necessities expressed byhave toandmustin the ICE-GB corpus. It provides detailed comments on semantic and pragmatic features of the different sources, which are shown to be more diverse than has previously been claimed. The corpus analysis proves that the traditional distinction in meaning between so-called ‘objective’have toand ‘subjective’mustis not as outspoken as is assumed, and therefore results in a more accurate description of the similarities and differences in meaning between the two modal markers.
Source: English Language and Linguistics
Authors: ILSE DEPRAETERE, AN VERHULST
Institutions: Savoirs, Textes, Langage, KU Leuven
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2170685602