Chapter published in:
“All families and genera”: Exploring the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts
Edited by Isabel Moskowich, Inés Lareo and Gonzalo Camiña
[Not in series 237] 2021
► pp. 249–264

Chapter 13
Authority and deontic modals in Late Modern English

Evidence from the Corpus of Life Sciences Texts

| University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Deontic modality
  • 3.Method
  • 4.Deontic modals in CELiST
    • 4.1The form of deontic modals
    • 4.2The function of deontic modals
      • 4.2.1Prescription
      • 4.2.2Resultative use
      • 4.2.3Reference to procedure in research
      • 4.2.4Appeal to the reader or colleague
      • 4.2.5Observed phenomena
      • 4.2.6Expectations based on actual knowledge
      • 4.2.7Impossibility to perform an action as based on opinions or evidence or lack of means
  • 5.Conclusions
  • Works cited
Published online: 10 September 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.237.13alv
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