It Will/Must/May Be a Modal Auxiliary

The English modal verb system has proved to be a difficult linguistic concept even for advanced EFL students. Their comprehension/usage problems may be of purely morpho-syntactic and semantic nature or may also involve sociolinguistic dimensions. The paper examines the question of polysemy, sociolin...

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Published in:Romanian journal of English studies 2012-12, Vol.9 (1), p.49-59
Main Author: Ilc, Gašper
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
applied lingustics
CEFR
ELT
modal auxiliaries
theoretical linguistics
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Summary:The English modal verb system has proved to be a difficult linguistic concept even for advanced EFL students. Their comprehension/usage problems may be of purely morpho-syntactic and semantic nature or may also involve sociolinguistic dimensions. The paper examines the question of polysemy, sociolinguistic factors and the role of ELT models.
ISSN:2286-0428
1584-3734
2286-0428
DOI:10.2478/v10319-012-0006-y