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Implicit modality is construed as modal Adjunct, part of Process/Predicator or mood element.
In Chinese, implicit modality is construed as a modal adjunct.
Down to the word rank, implicit modality is construed as verbal adjunct which is realized by modal auxiliaries1 such as yīnggāi '应该should'应该should
Explicit modality is construed as Figure.
Quasi-explicit modality is construed as projecting Circumstance.
Explicit modality is construed as projecting figures in Chinese.
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'Blue triangle' is construed as we would now construe 'metal triangle'.
If syntax is construed in this way, it presupposes semantics.
Collection is construed as a method for classification.
Similarity, for example, is construed quite weakly.
The sequence of the qualifiers could be explained as follows: just like the explicit realization of modality, the modalization should be construed, as it were, outside of the modalized nominal group.
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