It Will/Must/May Be a Modal Auxiliary

• Authors: Gašper Ilc
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

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.

Keywords

EN

applied lingustics; CEFR; ELT; modal auxiliaries; theoretical linguistics

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Romanian Journal of English Studies
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 49-59

Dates

published

2012-12-01

online

2013-02-21

Contributors

author

Gašper Ilc

• University of Ljubljana

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10319-012-0006-y