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modal verbs theme: verbs contents 1 function 2 modal verbs in germanic languages 2.1 english 2.1.1 defectiveness 2.2 other west germanic languages 2.2.1 morphology and syntax 3 modal verbs in other languages 3.1 hawaiian creole english 3.2 hawaiian 3.3 french 3.4 mandarin chinese 3.5 spanish 4 see also 5 bibliography 6 references 7 external links function a modal auxiliary verb gives more information about the function of the main verb that it governs. modals have a wide variety of communicative functions, but these functions can generally be related to a scale ranging from possibility ("may") to necessity ("must"), in terms of one of the following types of modality: · epistemic modality, concerned with the theoretical possibility of propositions being true or not true (including likelihood and certainty) · deontic modality, concerned with possibility and necessity in terms of freedom to act (including permission and duty) · dynamic modality,[2] which may …

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bligation sense; and the possibility senses of may and can developed later than the permission or ability sense. two typical sequences of evolution of modal meanings are: · internal mental ability → internal ability → root possibility (internal or external ability) → permission and epistemic possibility · obligation → probability modal verbs in germanic languages english main article: english modal verbs the following table lists the modal auxiliary verbs of standard english. most of them appear more than once based upon the distinction between deontic and epistemic modality: modal auxiliary meaning contribution example can1 deontic/dynamic modality she can really sing. can2 epistemic modality that can indeed help. could1 deontic modality he could swim when he was young. could2 epistemic modality that could happen soon. may1 deontic modality may i stay? may2 epistemic modality that may be a problem. might epistemic modality the weather might improve. must1 deontic modality sam must …

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le to the same extent as those listed here. furthermore, there are numerous other verbs that can be viewed as modal verbs insofar as they clearly express modality in the same way that the verbs in this list do, e.g. appear, have to, seem, etc. in the strict sense, though, these other verbs do not qualify as modal verbs in english because they do not allow subject-auxiliary inversion, nor do they allow negation with not. if, however, one defines modal verb entirely in terms of meaning contribution, then these other verbs would also be modals and so the list here would have to be greatly expanded. defectiveness modals in english form a very distinctive class of verbs. they are auxiliary verbs like be, do, and have, but they are defective insofar as they cannot be inflected like these other auxiliary verbs, e.g. have → has vs. should → *shoulds, do …

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e root of the clause. this trait of modal auxiliaries has motivated the designation defective, that is, modal auxiliaries are defective in english because they are so limited in their form and distribution. one can note further in this area that english modal auxiliaries are quite unlike modal verbs in closely related languages. in german, for instance, modals can occur as non-finite verbs, which means they can be subordinate to other verbs in verb catenae; they need not appear as the clause root. other west germanic languages the table below lists some modal verbs with common roots in english, german, dutch, west frisian and afrikaans. english modal auxiliary verb provides an exhaustive list of modal verbs in english, and german verb#modal verbs provides a list for german, with translations. dutch verbs#irregular verbs gives conjugations for some dutch modals. words in the same row of the table below share the same …

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ed an independent, present tense meaning. the german verb möchten is sometimes taught as a vocabulary word and included in the list of modal verbs, but it is actually the past subjunctive form of mögen. the english verbs dare and need have both a modal use (he dare not do it), and a non-modal use (he doesn't dare to do it). the dutch, west frisian, and afrikaans verbs durven, doarre, and durf are not considered modals (but they are there, nevertheless) because their modal use has disappeared, but they have a non-modal use analogous with the english dare. some english modals consist of more than one word, such as "had better" and "would rather".[6] owing to their modal characteristics, modal verbs are among a very select group of verbs in afrikaans that have a preterite form. most verbs in afrikaans only have a present and a perfect form. some other …

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modal verbs theme: verbs contents 1 function 2 modal verbs in germanic languages 2.1 english 2.1.1 defectiveness 2.2 other west germanic languages 2.2.1 morphology and syntax 3 modal verbs in other languages 3.1 hawaiian creole english 3.2 hawaiian 3.3 french 3.4 mandarin chinese 3.5 spanish 4 see also 5 bibliography 6 references 7 external links function a modal auxiliary verb gives more information about the function of the main verb that it governs. modals have a wide variety of communicative functions, but these functions can generally be related to a scale ranging from possibility ("may") to necessity ("must"), in terms of one of the following types of modality: · epistemic modality, concerned with the theoretical possibility of propositions being true …

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