Sentence examples for modality and aspect from inspiring English sources

However, systematic relations between modality and aspect, which according to Abraham and Leiss (2008) are frequently not even established in well-studied languages, have hitherto not found much interest in diachronic and synchronic studies of Chinese.

The last position is occupied by suffixes that express tense, evidentiality, modality, and aspect.

Negation, modality, voice, and aspect are the functional projection in TP.

The searches were performed in medical, social science, psychology, nutrition and complementary medicine databases to ensure that various CAM modalities and all aspects of patients' reasons for seeking CAM were covered.

Nominal features (case, person/number agreement, possessive agreement) and verbal features (tense, aspect, modality, and voice) are indicated with special tags.

Together with the systematic monitoring aimed at ensuring an adequate treatment modality and dose, these innovative aspects can provide important findings about how stepped care should be designed to gain sizeable effects.

Then, the specific characteristics of each modality and language (grammars, prompts, presentation aspects, user levels, etc).

Some aspects of modality and the verb are discussed, with the author noting a scholarly consensus that BH does not possess auxiliary verbs (cf. (Chrzanowski 2013)).

This observation among others results in Abraham's and Leiss' proposal (2008: xiii) that Perfective aspect is compatible ('converges strongly') with root modality Imperfective aspect is compatible ('converges strongly') with epistemic modality.2 Negated clauses as a rule select imperfective aspect only, without necessarily yielding epistemic modality.

Adding to the confusion is that traits conspicuous to humans are sometimes surprisingly unimportant as signal components in nonhuman animals., Controlling aspects of one perceptual modality and not another would be useful when investigating animal behavior, but is often impossible when working exclusively with living organisms.

inflectional layers headed by functional categories such as agreement, modality, voice, tense, aspect, among others), and the CP layer (the complementizer layer hosting kinds of force such as interrogative, imperative, and exclamative mood).14 There may be recursive topics but only a single focus between Force P and FinP.