Open AccessModal Verbs in New Zealand English Directives<sup>1</sup>
Author(s) -
Bernadette Vine
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
nordic journal of english studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.18
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 1654-6970
pISSN - 1502-7694
DOI - 10.35360/njes.63
Subject(s) - english language , linguistics , modal , political science , history , sociology , philosophy , chemistry , polymer chemistry
The distribution and semantics of the different modal verbs in English have been explored using a number of corpora (e.g., Palmer 1979, Coates 1983, Quirk et al 1985, Biber et al 1999, Kennedy 2002). Will has been found to be the most frequent of the central modal verbs, while will, would, can and could occur a lot more often than the other central modals (Coates 1983: 23, Biber et al 1999: 486, Kennedy 2002).
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