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Corpus Studies in Contrastive Linguistics
  • ISSN 1384-6655
  • E-ISSN: 1569-9811
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Abstract

The present paper presents a corpus-based contrastive analysis of modality in English and French finite noun complement clauses. On the one hand, we claim on the basis of cross-linguistic and semantic evidence that modality is a common intrinsic feature of nouns that license that/que complement clauses, and, as a consequence, that head nouns are modal stance markers. On the other hand, this paper shows that indicative-subjunctive alternation in that/que noun complement clauses is determined by the modality type of the governing noun. Contrastive analysis of French and English provides evidence to substantiate these claims.

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2010-01-01
2025-04-28
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  • Article Type: Research Article
Keyword(s): contrastive analysis; head noun; mandative subjunctive; modal noun; modality; that-clause
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