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Сопоставительный аспект изучения модальных глаголов русского и английского языков
The comparative aspect of studying modal verbs of Russian and English languages

Author(s): Victoria Barbun
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Library and Information Science
Published by: Biblioteca Ştiinţifică a Universităţii de Stat Alecu Russo
Keywords: modality; modal verbs; comparative analysis; possibility/impossibility
Summary/Abstract: In this article the author deals with the problem of describing modalverbs in Russian and English. The research is based on a comparative approachto determine general and specific features. It is noticed that the Russian modalverbs differ from all the other verbs with semantic insufficiency, but the Englishmodal verbs also have a functional insufficiency (defective verbs), they lack aseries of important grammatical features. More differences appear at themorphological level.

  • Page Range: 153-162
  • Page Count: 10
  • Publication Year: 2022
  • Language: Russian
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