In this article we are going to trace the transition of modal verbs into epistemic adverbs. This development found in nearly all European languages will be analysed on the basis of Russian možet (byt’) which goes back to the third person singular present tense of the modal verb moč’ plus infinitive. In our study we shall focus on the constructional aspects of this language change with the aim t...

This paper provides experimental evidence from German and English against the view that a goal to/zu-PP in combination with motion verb designates is reached. We propose to/zu have modal meaning, responsible for defeasibility of inference argue type subjects (intentional agent vs. accidental or theme) determines flavor (necessity) encoded by preposition (teleological circumstantial), which allo...

In recent years, the internet has become a popular medium for pregnant women seeking pregnancy-related information (Gao et al., 2012; Lagan, Sinclair & Kernohan, 2010; Romano, 2007; Song, West, Lundy & Smith-Dahmen, 2012). This study which utilized a qualitative approach explores Israeli women’s online information seeking during pregnancy. Israel is an especially interesting and important case ...

This paper sets out to answer a fundamental question: ‘How do tutors hedge their comments using modal verbs?’ A total of 126 feedback reports comprising 35,941 words were collected from two Humanities departments in a UK higher education institution. Although this is a relatively small corpus, it is a specialised corpus. The research focuses on a specific genre – written feedback –, thus the fi...

The so-called acquisitive modality or actuality, describing a successful realization of an action, is largely understudied type modal values. It significant interest both from the viewpoint its grammaticalization paths and wide rich variety lexical expression. article discusses one main representatives this class in Swedish, hard-to-translate verb orka, various counterparts Swedish-Russian para...

The current work investigated whether differences in phonological overlap between the past- and present-tense forms of regular and irregular verbs can account for the graded neurophysiological effects of verb regularity observed in past-tense priming designs. Event-related potentials were recorded from sixteen healthy participants who performed a lexical-decision task in which past-tense primes...

Making errors is a natural process of learning. Writing as productive skill important for students to express their ideas. However, conducted in the skills. Therefore, this study intended find out types made by written English. This employed qualitative method where Error Analysis was implemented. The subject first grade SMAN 1 Abdya and object were found population research all which consists ...

The present study deals with modal verb meanings and variation concerning these verbs in a corpus of texts the field tourism. For this, we will use compilation article introductions conclusions written English published specialized leading journals on Modal are important to evince authors’ stance propositional content (Palmer, 2001; Biber, Johansson, Leech, Conrad & Finegan, 1999). Our main are...

This study attempted to investigate writing problems and the relationship between expert-assessment and self-assessment of writing problems. Participants were thirty four non-English faculty members of Tehran and Guilan universities. The instruments were writing an essay on the topic "What teaching strategies do you use in your classes?" in twenty five lines and filling the questionnaire of wri...