Extraction And Analysis Of Modal Auxiliaries In Consecutive Clauses From A Corpus

Author : Robert Chartrand
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144388927X
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Extraction and Analysis of Modal Auxiliaries in Consecutive Clauses from a Corpus written by Robert Chartrand and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-22 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although there are a large number of grammar books that explain the form and meaning of the English modal auxiliaries, there are few resources that provide examples as to what modals could be used, and in which cases, when referring to successive clauses. Modal auxiliaries are among the most difficult structures to teach to students of English as a second or foreign language. Some combinations of modals are more commonly used than others, and pairs of modals are used to express a specific meaning. It is not well known, however, exactly which combinations of modals are more popular. Therefore, a method to extract modal auxiliaries in two consecutive clauses from the British National Corpus 2007 XML edition was developed and is discussed in this book. Pair modal frequencies were not well known since simple string match methods could not be used with embedded sentences, complex sentences and compound sentences. This problem was solved by defining rules of sentence structures to identify important clauses carrying the main ideas of sentences, extracting only the important clauses and calculating t-scores. A system was implemented by using computational linguistic techniques for extracting, parsing, and simplifying sentences for learners to study the use of modal auxiliaries. Which collocational expressions are more common? What is the appropriateness of the results? Learners and educators can make use of these results to gain a better understanding of modal auxiliaries, and to facilitate the process of teaching and learning English.

Author : Pascal Hohaus
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027260524
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Re-Assessing Modalising Expressions written by Pascal Hohaus and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mood, modality and evidentiality are popular and dynamic areas in linguistics. Re-Assessing Modalising Expressions – Categories, co-text, and context focuses on the specific issue of the ways language users express permission, obligation, volition (intention), possibility and ability, necessity and prediction linguistically. Using a range of evidence and corpus data collected from different sources, the authors of this volume examine the distribution and functions of a range of patterns involving modalising expressions as predominantly found in standard American English, British English or Hong Kong English, but also in Japanese. The authors are particularly interested in addressing (co-)textual manifestations of modalising expressions as well as their distribution across different text-types and thus filling a gap research was unable to plug in the past. Thoughts on categorising or re-categorising modalising expressions initiate and complement a multi-perspectival enterprise that is intended to bring research in this area a step forward.

Author : Manfred G. Krug
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110820986
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emerging English Modals written by Manfred G. Krug and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-04-20 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is essentially based on grammaticalization theory – a branch of linguistics which has gained prominence since the 1980s. It focuses on the interaction between diachrony and synchrony, langue and parole or, for that matter, competence and performance, I–language and Ε–language. It does not see these levels as distinct linguistic domains, as much structurally oriented work does. It is important for the present purposes that such an interactionist view entails that performance effects may over time cause new grammatical code relations. Hence the importance of statistical empirical research, which led the author to adopt a predominantly corpus-based approach.

Author : Pascal Hohaus
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3476056430
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Subordinating Modalities written by Pascal Hohaus and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-26 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is concerned with the use of the English modals (may, might,can, could, shall, should, will, would and must) in adverbial, relative and complement clauses. It employs synchronic data from the British National Corpus and quantitative methods to investigate similarities and differences between the core modals, as well as modal-specific preferences in subordinate clauses. The main finding is that modal verbs in subordinate clauses may be conceived of as meso-constructions and that they qualify as micro-constructions once further syntagmatic features are considered. This allows for distinguishing modal verb phrases with different degrees of complexity, schematicity, productivity and subjectivity. Further applications give us insights into collocations, modal harmony, semantic preference, and the attraction of dynamic meaning to relative clauses.

Author : Ilse Depraetere
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311073415X
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Models of Modals written by Ilse Depraetere and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-04-26 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Jennifer Coates
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780709907350
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Semantics of the Modal Auxiliaries written by Jennifer Coates and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1983 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Vítor Míguez
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 902724698X
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revisiting Modality written by Vítor Míguez and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2024-04-15 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the first in-depth investigation of modality in Galician linguistics, offering a theoretical discussion of modal categories and a fine-grained description of epistemic adverbs. The first half of the monograph deconstructs the most relevant approaches to modal categories and shows how the traditional concept of modality is a problematic notion, how it relates to other concepts such as evidentiality and mitigation, and how it ought to be conceived of in order to become a more useful instrument for linguistic analysis. A new way of understanding modality is explored and illustrated through Galician examples. The second half of the book zooms in on six epistemic adverbs, which are exhaustively studied from both a formal and a functional perspective. Combining a quantitative and a qualitative perspective, the book shows that adverbs make up a rich semantic scale and establishes several factors that condition their occurrence in discourse, challenging previous conceptions of this grammatical domain.

Author : Ilka Mindt
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027223181
Total Pages : 249 pages
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Download or read book Adjective Complementation written by Ilka Mindt and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Printbegrænsninger: Der kan printes 10 sider ad gangen og max. 40 sider pr. session

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Total Pages : 476 pages
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Author : Dipanjan Sarkar
Publisher : Apress
ISBN 13 : 1484223888
Total Pages : 397 pages
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Download or read book Text Analytics with Python written by Dipanjan Sarkar and published by Apress. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derive useful insights from your data using Python. You will learn both basic and advanced concepts, including text and language syntax, structure, and semantics. You will focus on algorithms and techniques, such as text classification, clustering, topic modeling, and text summarization. Text Analytics with Python teaches you the techniques related to natural language processing and text analytics, and you will gain the skills to know which technique is best suited to solve a particular problem. You will look at each technique and algorithm with both a bird's eye view to understand how it can be used as well as with a microscopic view to understand the mathematical concepts and to implement them to solve your own problems. What You Will Learn: Understand the major concepts and techniques of natural language processing (NLP) and text analytics, including syntax and structure Build a text classification system to categorize news articles, analyze app or game reviews using topic modeling and text summarization, and cluster popular movie synopses and analyze the sentiment of movie reviews Implement Python and popular open source libraries in NLP and text analytics, such as the natural language toolkit (nltk), gensim, scikit-learn, spaCy and Pattern Who This Book Is For : IT professionals, analysts, developers, linguistic experts, data scientists, and anyone with a keen interest in linguistics, analytics, and generating insights from textual data