On a special type of necessity modality

The German verb sollen viewed from parallel corpora

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ID19405152
AuthorsDmitrij Dobrovolʹskij (0000-0003-4531-6968, Stockholm University, corresponding author), Dmitrij Dobrovol’skij (Vinogradov Russian Language Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences; Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences; Stockholm University)
Year2021
Issue6
Pages22
Publication date2021-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueVoprosy Jazykoznanija (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0373-658X
PublisherThe Russian Academy of Sciences (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.31857/0373-658x.2021.6.22-39
OpenAlexW4205169754
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited2

The article discusses the thesis that the German verb sollen expresses a special type of modality that occupies an intermediate position between necessity and possibility, i.e. the modality of weak ontological necessity. The modality expressed by the verb sollen can be characterized as follows: sollen points to the correlation of the state of aff airs P with a certain logic of development of events, not the only possible, but salient in some respect. This is the diff erence between this type of modality and “classical” necessity, which assumes that the state of aff airs P corresponds to the only possible logic of the world. The study was conducted on the material of the German-Russian parallel subcorpus of the Russian National Corpus, using the “monofocal” method of contrastive analysis, according to which the way of translating the analyzed linguistic unit into another language is used as a tool for its semantic analysis

German · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Salient · Verb · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis and Cultural Communication · Language, Communication, and Linguistic Studies · Linguistic research and analysis · Philosophy · Artificial Intelligence · Geology

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