Modal Auxiliary in British English:
A Corpus-Based Study of Modality Through British National Corpus
⭐BNCweb is the concordance software that accesses this copy of the BNC. With BNCweb, you can search the entire BNC, or limit yourself to just part of it.
⭐Objectives
BNCweb will e specifically applied through chosen modal verbs in order to:
1. shed some light on modal verbs of which meanings are difficult to make distinction on theoretical background.
2. affirm that modalities can be interchangeable due to different contexts, such as gender, type of data, perceived level of difficulty and etc.
⭐Method Three modal verbs ("should", "have to" and "must") will be scrutinized by available functions ("distribution", "collocation" and "concordance") via BNCweb in order to offer empirical information, such as grammatical usage and discursive practice, of modalities in British context. Details of methodology in each function will be subsequently explained in results and discussion section.
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