The Semantics of Chaucer's Moot/Moste and Shal/Sholde: Conditional Elements and Degrees of Their Quantifiability

Author / Editor
Nakao, Yoshiyuki.

Title
The Semantics of Chaucer's Moot/Moste and Shal/Sholde: Conditional Elements and Degrees of Their Quantifiability

Published
Toshio Saito, Junsaku Nakamura, and Shunji Yamazaki, eds. English Corpus Linguistics in Japan. Language and Computers: Studies in Practical Linguistics, no. 38 (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2002), pp. 235-47.

Series
Language and Computers: Studies in Practical Linguistics, no. 38.

Description
Explores the "quantifiability" of the elements that condition the semantics of moot/moste and shal/sholde modals. Although conditions deriving from proposition and clause structure are quantifiable and machine-readable, pragmatic conditions require reader input.

Alternative Title
English Corpus Linguistics in Japan.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies.