«МЕЖДУНАРОДНЫЙ ГУМАНИТАРНО-ЛИНГВИСТИЧЕСКИЙ ИНСТИТУТ»
Курсовая работа
по дисциплине: Лексикология
на тему: «Means of expressing modality in Modern English»
«Способы выражения модальности в современном английском языке»
Выполнил: студент _2_курса факультета иностранных языков очной формы обучения (очной, очно-заочной, заочной)
_Разживин Павел Сергеевич___
(ФИО)
Научный руководитель:
__ст.п. Устиновская А.А._
(ученая степень, звание, ФИО)
Дата сдачи:
«____»_________________ 200_г.
Дата защиты:
«____»__________________ 200_г
Оценка
_____________________________
Москва, 2014
Table of content
Introduction ………………………………………………………………………..3
Chapter I. Review of Theoretical and Practical Studying of Modality in Modern English ……………………………………………………………………………..6
1.1. The Notion of Modality…………………………………….………………….6
1.2 The Category of Modality .……………………………………………………8
1.3 Modal Words …………………………………………………………………11
1.4 Lexical Composition and Classification of Modal Words……………………………………………………………………………..12
1.5 Modal Words as Means of Expressing the Truth …………………….………12
1.6 Syntactic Functions of Modal Words ……..………………………………….16
1.7 Comparison of Modal Words as Adverbs...……………………………..……17
Chapter II. General Characteristics of Modal Verbs ..……………………………19
2.1. The Verb Must …………...…………………………………………………..20
2.2. The Verb May-Might …………..…………………………………………….22
2.3. Verbs Should and Ought to …………...……………………………………...24
2.4. The Verb Will – Would …………...………………………………………….26
2.5. The Verb Can – Could ……..………………………………………………..27
2.6 The Verb Need ………………………………………………………………..29
Conclusion ………………………………………………………………………..30
List of References ………………………………………………………………...31
Introduction
Lexicology is the part of linguistics which studies words. This may include their nature and function as symbols their meaning, the relationship of their meaning to epistemology in general, and the rules of their composition from smaller elements (morphemes such as the
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