Chapter published in:
Writing History in Late Modern English: Explorations of the Coruña Corpus
Edited by Isabel Moskowich, Begoña Crespo, Luis Puente-Castelo and Leida Maria Monaco
[Not in series 225] 2019
► pp. 150–165

Chapter 8
Modal verb categories in CHET

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Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Modality and modal categories
    • 2.1Modal verbs
  • 3.The texts, the method, and results
    • 3.1The texts and the method
    • 3.2Results
  • 4.Modal verb categories
    • 4.1Epistemic modals
      • 4.1.1Inferentiality
    • 4.2Deontic modals
    • 4.3Dynamic modals
  • 5.Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
Published online: 09 October 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.225.08alo
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