Models of Modals : : From Pragmatics and Corpus Linguistics to Machine Learning /

Models of Modals : : From Pragmatics and Corpus Linguistics to Machine Learning / / Ilse Depraetere, Bert Cappelle, Martin Hilpert, Pascal Denis, Mathieu Dehouck, Susanne Flach, Natalia Grabar, Cyril Grandin, Clemens Hufeld, Benoît Leclercq, Hans-Jörg Schmid, Thierry Hamon, Ludovic De Cuypere.

Modal verbs in English communicate delicate shades of meaning, there being a large range of verbs both on the necessity side (must, have to, should, ought to, need, need to) and the possibility side (can, may, could, might, be able to). They therefore constitute excellent test ground to apply and co...

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Depraetere, Ilse,
Cappelle, Bert,
Dehouck, Mathieu,
Denis, Pascal,
Flach, Susanne,
Grabar, Natalia,
Grandin, Cyril,
Hamon, Thierry,
Hilpert, Martin,
Hufeld, Clemens,
Leclercq, Benoît,
Schmid, Hans-Jörg,
MitwirkendeR:
Cappelle, Bert,
De Cuypere, Ludovic,
Dehouck, Mathieu,
Denis, Pascal,
Depraetere, Ilse,
Flach, Susanne,
Grabar, Natalia,
Grandin, Cyril,
Hamon, Thierry,
Hilpert, Martin,
Hufeld, Clemens,
Leclercq, Benoît,
Schmid, Hans-Jörg,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] , 110
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VI, 274 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1 English modals: An outline of their forms, meanings and uses
  • 2 Modality revisited: Combining insights from Construction Grammar and Relevance Theory
  • 3 Possibility modals: Which conditions make them possible?
  • 4 Necessity modals and the role of source as a predictive factor
  • 5 You must/have to choose: Experimenting with choices between near-synonymous modals
  • 6 Does the intersubjectivity of modal verbs boost inter-individual differences?
  • 7 Modals as a predictive factor for L2 proficiency level
  • 8 Revisiting modal sense classification with contextual word embeddings
  • 9 Modals in the network model of Construction Grammar
  • Index

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