Publications

Publication details [#801]

Antinucci, Francesco and Domenico Parisi. 1971. On English modal verbs. Papers from the Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society 7 : 28–39.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

lexical decomposition | meaning component | modal verb

Language as a subject

English

Annotation

An attempt to analyze the modal verbs 'must', 'may', 'have to', 'can', 'will' and 'shall' by means of lexical decomposition in terms of a small set of semantic units.