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Dela Rosa, John Paul Obillos – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2017
The marriage between language and the law is apparent in any legal document of whatever purpose. Hence, at present, studies on the language of the law are definitely in vogue. Grounded on Quirk et al. (1985) and Matulewska's (2010) description of deontic modality, this corpus-based linguistic study aimed at analyzing the use of deontic modals in…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Armed Forces, Power Structure, Verbs