The necessity modals have to, must, need to, and should

IF 0.5 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
B. Cappelle, I. Depraetere, Mégane Lesuisse
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Abstract

When an ambiguous lexical item appears within a familiar string of words, it can instantly receive an appropriate interpretation from this context, thus being saturated by it. Such a context may also short-circuit illocutionary and other pragmatic aspects of interpretation. We here extract from the British National Corpus over 500 internally highly collocating and high-frequency lexical n-grams up to 5 words containing have to, must, need to, and/or should. These contexts-as-constructions go some way toward allowing us to group these four necessity modals into clusters with similar semantic and pragmatic properties and to determine which of them is semantico-pragmatically most unlike the others. It appears that have to and need to cluster most closely together thanks to their shared environments (e.g., you may have/need to…, expressing contingent, mitigated necessity), while should has the largest share of unique n-grams (e.g., rhetorical Why shouldn’t I…?, used as a defiant self-exhortation).
必要性情态动词have to, must, need to和should
当一个模棱两可的词汇出现在一个熟悉的单词串中时,它可以立即从这个上下文中得到适当的解释,从而被它饱和。这样的上下文也可能缩短解释的言外和其他语用方面。我们从英国国家语料库中提取了500多个内部高度搭配和高频词汇n-gram,最多5个单词包含必须、必须、需要和/或应该。这些作为结构的上下文在一定程度上使我们能够将这四个必要性模态分组为具有相似语义和语用特性的聚类,并确定其中哪一个在语义和语用上最不同于其他模态。由于它们的共享环境,它们似乎必须并且需要最紧密地聚集在一起(例如,你可能必须/需要…,表达偶然的、减轻的必要性),而应该拥有最大份额的独特n格(例如,修辞性的“为什么我不应该…?”,用作挑衅的自我劝告)。
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