Sentence examples for modal and event from inspiring English sources

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Narrog (2008: 188) proposes a particular representation to capture the temporal relation between modal and event.

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Abraham and Leiss base the hypothesis of a close relation between deontic modals and biphasic events on the diachronic development of the modal system in the Germanic languages.

The modal and median duration of effect of ayahuasca was 6 hours and the modal and median time to peak effect was 1 hour.

Examples such as 27, display characteristics typical for deontic modal interpretations, i.e. the modal modifies event predicates with telic verbs with [+HUMAN] agent or causer subjects.

This classification accounts for the fact that root modals, i.e. deontic modals in a wider sense, take an event as their complement, whereas epistemic modals take a proposition as their complement: root modals are event modifiers (Abraham and Leiss 2008: xx).

We believe that we have shown that the sensitivity of human AV timing perception has been systematically underestimated by experiments that use isolated pairs of audio and visual events, as temporally proximate cross modal events tend to group perceptually, and to seem synchronous as a consequence.

The preceding discussion demonstrates that root/deontic modal auxiliaries take event (telic) verbs or verbs that can add an event argument to their temporal structure as their complement; they are all future-projecting, i.e. as in Japanese, they all have the temporal structure S ≠ E (speech time is not identical with, i.e. it precedes event time), even if the modal is located in the past.

Reference, modal, and intensional notions.

The modal and epistemological arguments deny this.

Many mathematical, modal, and religious judgments face a similar challenge.

Developers can use the hardware, or simply develop applications for Modal and sell them through Modal's own version of an app store.

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