Contrastive Discourse Analysis - Functional and Corpus Perspectives - Maite Taboada
An annotation scheme for dynamic modality in English and Spanish
Contrastive Discourse Analysis - Functional and Corpus Perspectives - Maite Taboada
Juan Rafael Zamorano-Mansilla
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Marta Carretero
Description
This chapter describes the results of a series of annotation experiments that focused on a number of prototypical expressions of dynamic modality in English and Spanish. This kind of modality is defined as possibility and necessity due to natural factors and comprises meanings such as inevitability, tendency, ability and circumstantial possibility.