Choice of strategies in realizations of epistemic possibility in English and Lithuanian

Usoniene, Aurelia; Šolienė, Audronė

doi:10.1075/bct.43.07uso

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“…The comparatively rare epistemic use of gali ('can/may'.3prs) in Lithuanian humanities could be attributed to the general pattern of behaviour that Lithuanian modal verbs employ; there is a tendency for epistemic modality in Lithuanian to be expressed by means other than modal verbs (Usonienė & Šolienė 2010;Holvoet & Judžentis 2004). This claim is also confirmed by the studies that use parallel corpora.…”

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“…It will also investigate whether there are any differences in the use of this modal verb across different science fields. While there are undoubtedly extensive studies on the modality system in Lithuanian including the semantic profile of galėti ʻcan/could/may/mightʼ (see, for example, Holvoet 2007Holvoet , 2009Usonienė & Šolienė 2010;Šolienė 2013), they are primarily based on general Lithuanian or on corpora of fiction texts and do not focus on specialized discourses, such as academic discourse. There are some studies on hedging in Lithuanian academic discourse (Šinkūnienė 2008, 2011) but they only address the epistemic realizations of galėti ʻcan/could/may/mightʼ in small scale selfcompiled corpora of research articles.…”

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The modal verb galėti ʻcan/could/may/mightʼ in academic Lithuanian: distribution, frequency and semantic properties

Šinkūnienė¹

2017

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The aim of the present paper is to investigate the frequency and distribution patterns as well as the spectrum of modal meanings conveyed by the Lithuanian modal verb of possibility galėti 'can/could/may/might' in academic Lithuanian. The study is based on Corpus Academicum Lithuanicum (www.coralit.lt), a specialized synchronic corpus of written academic Lithuanian (roughly 9 million words). In order to allow a disciplinary comparison, the paper analyses the use of this modal verb in academic texts from three science fields: the humanities, the biomedical sciences and the technological sciences. Quantitative and qualitative approaches are employed alongside corpus-based analysis to reveal the ways in which this modal verb of possibility is used in academic language. The first part of the paper investigates the frequency patterns of various forms of galėti 'can/could/may/might' in the three science fields. The second part looks at the variety of meanings this modal verb can convey in Lithuanian specialised language. The results show that there is a fairly similar distribution of this modal verb across different science fields. In terms of its semantic functional capacities, galėti 'can/could/may/might' is used to convey all three types of modality (epistemic, deontic and dynamic), however, the most frequent use in Lithuanian academic discourse seems to be that of dynamic modality.

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The modal verb galėti ʻcan/could/may/mightʼ in academic Lithuanian: distribution, frequency and semantic properties

Šinkūnienė¹

2017

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“…Ar tikrai daroma prielaida ir įžvalgos yra pagrįstos ir teisingos tarpkalbinėje prancūzų-lietuvių kalbų erdvėje, bus galima spręsti atlikus išsamią tekstynu paremta devoir 'privalėti' ir jo vertimo atitikmenų kiekybinių ir kokybinių parametrų analizę. Reikėtų atkreipti dėmesį, kad kaip rodo jau atlikti kontrastyviniai anglų-lietuvių kalbų tyrimai (Usonienė, Šolienė 2010;Šolienė 2012), lietuvių kalboje episteminiam modalumui žymėti dažniausiai pasirenkama būtent adverbialinė raiška.…”

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Prancūzų kalbos veiksmažodžio devoir ‘privalėti’ semantinė funkcinė polifonija. Tarpkalbinė studija

Valiukienė¹

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AnotacijaStraipsnyje aptariama prancūzų kalbos veiksmažodžio devoir 'privalėti' reikšmių įvairovė iš tarpkalbinės prancūzų-lietuvių / lietuvių-prancūzų perspektyvos. Remiantis lingvistinėje literatūroje publikuotais diachroniniais tyrimais apžvelgiama šio veiksmažodžio reikšmių dinamika prancūzų kalboje. Straipsnyje taip pat pateikiama deontinio modalumo, epistemiškumo, evidencialumo kategorijų samprata prancūzų lingvistikoje. Trumpai pristatoma gramatikalizacijos proceso esmė. Apibendrinamosios bandomojo tyrimo pastabos daromos remiantis individualia straipsnio autorės introspekcija analizuojant prancūzų ir lietuvių grožinės literatūros kūrinių pavyzdžius bei jų vertimus į lietuvių ir prancūzų kalbą ir mokslinėje literatūroje vyraujančia išvada: deontiniam devoir 'privalėti' aspektui perteikti dažniausiai pasirenkama veiksmažodinė strategija, o epistemiškumui reikšti -adverbialinė raiška. Tyrimu atkreipiamas dėmesys į kontekstinės situacijos svarbą devoir 'privalėti' reikšmių identifikavimui.

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“…The reason behind this may be the fact that modal adverbials can only express epistemic meanings, which are most common in the use of must. Besides, as a number of studies have shown (Usonienė & Šolienė 2010;Šolienė 2012, 2013, Lithuanian opts for an adverbial strategy for the realization of epistemic modality. The semi-modals in question are usually translated by the Lithuanian modal verbs reikėti 'need' and turėti 'must/have to' which mostly encode deontic modality.…”

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“…Still, the difference in the percentage indicates that must is more often translated into Lithuanian using an adverbial strategy rather than the verbal one (cf. van der Auwera et al 2005;Usonienė & Šolienė 2010;Šolienė 2012, 2013. Other TCs include the adverbials veikiausiai 'most probably', greičiausiai 'most likely' and galbūt 'maybe', as well as the verbs galėti 'can/ may' and tekti 'be gotten'.…”

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(Non)epistemic modality: English must, have to and have got to and their correspondences in Lithuanian

Šolienė¹

2017

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This paper deals with the three types of modality -epistemic, deontic and dynamic. It examines the relation between the synchronic uses of the modal auxiliary must and the semi-modals have to and have got to as well as their Lithuanian translation correspondences (TCs) found in a bidirectional translation corpus. The study exploits quantitative and qualitative methods of research. The purpose is to find out which type of modality is most common in the use of must, have to and have got to; to establish their equivalents in Lithuanian in terms of congruent or non-congruent correspondence (Johansson 2007); and to determine how Lithuanian TCs (verbs or adverbials) correlate with different types of modality expressed. The analysis has shown that must is mostly used to convey epistemic nuances, while have to and have got to feature in non-epistemic environments. The findings show that must can boast of a great diversity of TCs. Some of them may serve as epistemic markers; others appear in deontic domains only. Have (got) to, on the other hand, is usually rendered by the modal verbs reikėti 'need' and turėti 'must/have to', which usually encode deontic modality.Key words: modality, epistemic, deontic, dynamic, necessity, obligation, translational correspondence, corpus-based analysis (Ne)episteminis modalumas: anglų kalbos must, have to ir have got to bei jų vertimo atitikmenys lietuvių kalboje Santrauka Šio darbo objektas yra trys anglų kalbos modaliniai veiksmažodžiai -must 'turėti/ privalėti', have to ir have got to 'turėti/reikėti' ir jų vertimo atitikmenys lietuvių kalboje. 224Tyrimas paremtas tekstynų inspiruota metodologija -empirinė medžiaga paimta iš dvikrypčio lygiagrečiojo tekstyno ParaCorp EN→LT→EN , kurį sudaro grožinės literatūros tekstai ir jų vertimai į anglų bei lietuvių kalbas. Straipsnyje pateikiama kiekybinė ir kokybinė šių anglų kalbos modalinių veiksmažodžių ir jų vertimo atitikmenų lietuvių kalboje analizė. Tyrimo tikslas yra nustatyti, koks modalumo tipas (episteminis, deontinis ar dinaminis) vyrauja veiksmažodžių must 'turėti/privalėti', have to ir have got to 'turėti/ reikėti' vartosenoje, kokie yra jų prototipiniai vertimo atitikmenys lietuvių kalboje ir kaip tie atitikmenys koreliuoja su reiškiamu modalumo tipu.

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Choice of strategies in realizations of epistemic possibility in English and Lithuanian

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The modal verb galėti ʻcan/could/may/mightʼ in academic Lithuanian: distribution, frequency and semantic properties

The modal verb galėti ʻcan/could/may/mightʼ in academic Lithuanian: distribution, frequency and semantic properties

Prancūzų kalbos veiksmažodžio devoir ‘privalėti’ semantinė funkcinė polifonija. Tarpkalbinė studija

(Non)epistemic modality: English must, have to and have got to and their correspondences in Lithuanian

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