34.2044, Books: Models of Modals: Depraetere, Cappelle, De Cuypere, Dehouck, Denis, Flach, Grabar, Grandin

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Date: 16-Jun-2023
From: Katrin Stein [katrin.stein at degruyter.com]
Subject: Models of Modals: Depraetere, Cappelle, De Cuypere, Dehouck, Denis, Flach, Grabar, Grandin


Title: Models of Modals
Subtitle: From Pragmatics and Corpus Linguistics to Machine Learning
Series Title: Topics in English Linguistics
Publication Year: 2023
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
                https://cloud.newsletter.degruyter.com/mouton
Book URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110734157/html

author: Ilse Depraetere
author: Bert Cappelle
author: Martin  Hilpert
author: Ludovic De Cuypere
author: Mathieu Dehouck
author: Pascal Denis
author: Susanne Flach
author: Natalia  Grabar
author: Cyril Grandin
Hardback: ISBN: 9783110738612 Pages: 274 Price: Europe EURO 139.95
Electronic: ISBN:  9783110734157 Pages: 274 Price: Europe EURO 139.95
Abstract:

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 compare different methodologies that can lay
bare the factors that drive the speaker’s choice of modal verb. This
book is not merely concerned with a purely grammatical description of
the use of modal verbs, but aims at advancing our understanding of
lexical and grammatical units in general and of linguistic
methodologies to explore these. It thus involves a genuine effort to
compare, assess and combine a variety of approaches. It complements
the leading descriptive qualitative work on modal verbs by testing a
diverse range of quantitative methods, while not ignoring qualitative
issues pertaining to the semantics-pragmatics interface. Starting from
a critical assessment of what constitutes the meaning of modal verbs,
different types of empirical studies (usage-based, data-driven and
experimental), drawing considerably on the same data sets, shows how
method triangulation can contribute to an enhanced understanding. Due
attention is also given to individual variation as well as the degree
to which modals can predict L2 proficiency level.

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Written In: English (eng)

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