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Hofmann, Thomas R. – 1979
The descriptive contents (cognitive meanings) of the modals "can,""may,""could,""might,""must,""need,""ought,""should," compared with paraphrastic verbs and adjectives, motivate two cross-classifying dimensions: logical modality (possibility, impossibility, necessity)…
Descriptors: Chinese, Connected Discourse, Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics
