This shareable PDF can be hosted on any platform or network and is fully compliant with publisher copyright.
We propose an analysis of the meaning of modal verbs that takes into account the import of the context. The context surrounding a modal verb can often legitimately be called a modal "construction".
This page is a summary of: Modal Meaning in Construction Grammar, Constructions and Frames, September 2016, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/cf.8.1.
You can read the full text:
The following have contributed to this page
Transactions of the Philological Society
In this article we demonstrate how fine-grained analysis of salient features of linguistic change over a relatively short, but significant period can help refine our notions of periodization. As ou...
Gesture
Teachers’ use of gestures in the classroom can support the language acquisition of learners in learning a second language (Stam & Tellier, 2022). Depending on learners’ language skills, different d...
Diachronica
Morphological redundancies in Crow are characterized by morphemes encoding a given piece of information (redundantly) occurring multiple times within a single word. I show how these redundancies we...
