The Semantics of Chaucer's Moot/Moste and Shal/Sholde: Conditional Elements and Degrees of Their Quantifiability
- Author / Editor
- Nakao, Yoshiyuki.
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.