Title :

A Contrastive Analysis of Modal Usage of ‘Can’ In English, French and Swahili

Author(s) :

Achieng, Stella Anne [Auteur]
Centre de Recherche sur les Médiations [Crem]
Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163 [STL]

Journal title :

Journal of Studies in Language, Culture, and Society (JSLCS)
Journal of Studies in Language, Culture, and Society

Pages :

74-84

Publisher :

Algerian Scientific Journal Platform (ASJP)

Publication date :

2024-06-30

ISSN :

2716-9189

English keyword(s) :

Contrastive analysis cross-linguistic patterns ellipsis modal verbs subject-verb inversion
Contrastive analysis
cross-linguistic patterns
ellipsis
modal verbs
subject-verb inversion

English abstract : [en]

Understanding and analysing languages with different grammatical systems is a major challenge, but by identifying formal grammatical categories and exploring their common meanings, as linguist Frank Palmer suggests, it is ...
Show more >Understanding and analysing languages with different grammatical systems is a major challenge, but by identifying formal grammatical categories and exploring their common meanings, as linguist Frank Palmer suggests, it is possible to uncover cross-linguistic patterns. This paper undertakes a contrastive and descriptive study of the modal verb ‘can’ in three languages: French, English and Kiwahili. The aim is to examine, through illustrative examples, how different languages operate within different linguistic frameworks to convey concepts of comparable semantics. Particular attention will be paid to the peculiarities of English modal verbs, including subject-auxiliary inversion, ellipsis and direct not-negation.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Popular science :

Non

Collections :

• Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163

Source :

Harvested from HAL