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Peer reviewedMatthews, Richard – Language Sciences, 1996
Compares the English modals "could,""might,""should,""ought to" and others with German "konnte,""durfte,""sollte,""mubte," referring to the diachronic perspective and using Reichenbach's (1947) grid of times and worlds. The article suggests that the variety of use of…
Descriptors: Adverbs, Cognitive Structures, Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics
