Sentence examples for modal expression from inspiring English sources

There is no modal expression hidden anywhere in his accounts.

A combination of type and value is exhibited in any modal expression, such as those illustrated in Table 3.

The worry is not one of circularity: for Lewis can define the apparently modal expression "supervene on" in non-modal terms.

Bhatt takes this phenomenon to tell in favor of the view that 'able to' is not in fact a modal expression after all.

Since the study takes the clause as the unit of analysis, in cases where more than one modal expression of probability or usuality occurs in the same clause, only the one with higher value will be counted.

The modal expressions of deontic modality typical for LAC, i.e. NEG 可/可以 kě/kěyǐ NEG and the modal auxiliary 必 bì, apparently cease to be relevant in the EMC Buddhist literature and new forms develop and increase the complexity of the modal system.

Therefore it is relatively easy to detect modal expressions in Chinese.

In this paper, I will follow Condoravdi (2002) to simply call non-root modal expressions referring to the past "non-root modals for the past".

While the American translators tend to use more high-valued modal expressions, the Chinese translators usually favour median- and low-valued MODALITY.

Moreover, values of MODALITY also differ among these translations, with 38 and 19 % modal expressions being high valued in translations of Cleary and Heng, in comparison to the much lower frequencies in Wong (11 %) and Cheng (8 %).

In addition to the emergence of GM, the data was also analysed based on the use of modal expressions as well as transcategorised constructs, which are closely related to GM.