Sentence examples for modal meanings from inspiring English sources

The system of modal auxiliary verbs expressing root modal meanings is still extremely confined during this period, and its complexity only increases during the EMC period.

It should be noted, however, that the perfect, imperfect, weqatal and wayyiqtol are typically associated with the selection of indicative mood type (although the imperfect is also the normal form for imperatives which select for negative POLARITY); however, the imperfect and weqatal commonly realize various modal meanings as well (Gianto 1998).

In addition to the phasal meanings shown above, BH also possesses two auxiliary verbs with modal meanings: yāḵol – 'can, to be able' – and ʾāḇāh – 'be willing, want' (ibid., 245), which exhibit similar structural realizations, as shown in the following two examples.

However, there are few affixes with adverbial or modal meanings.

Furthermore, each group can also be 'multi-modal', meaning that there can be great variations between, for example, policymakers from different parts of the Department of Health (DH) or between the skills and attitudes of scientists working in different branches of health research [ 12].

It's a modal window, meaning you have to click on one or the other to either swap windows or get back to what you were doing before the interruption.

In Scotus's modal semantics, the meaning of the notion of contingency is spelt out by considering simultaneous alternatives.

The exact adjunction position of the additive hai can be determined by its relative position with epistemic modals and the meanings it indicates (i.e., the addition of actions, propositions or possibilities).

Unlike 都 dou 1 in Mandarin, which mainly functions as a maximality operator, 都 to 1 in Southern Min is chiefly used as a modal particle expressing a concessive meaning or meaning of unexpectedness as a type of conventional implicature rather than pragmatic inference.

The first enrichment, standard possible worlds semantics, is introduced in order to explain the meaning of modal operators like 'possible' and 'necessary' and to distinguish the intuitive subject matter represented by particular subsentential expressions.

In this paper, I propose that 都 to 1 as attested in earlier Southern Min texts features two basic functions, either as a maximality operator or a modal particle carrying concessive meaning or both.