情态助动词

Palmer认为在英语语法中，最难描写的莫过于情态助动词系统（Palmer，1979：preface）。

Palmer holds that it is the modal system that is most difficult to describe in English grammar .

英语情态助动词+不定式完成体结构之探讨

Discussion on the English Structure of Modal Verbs and Infinitive Perfective Aspect

过往飞机日夜不绝于耳。（与情态助动词连用）

Passing planes can be heard night and day .

英语情态助动词有无时态形式？

Do Modals in English Have Tense Forms ?

本文以英语情态助动词为研究对象，探究其主客观区别。

This study deals with the distinction between subjective and objective modality on the basis of the English modal auxiliaries .

小孩习得下列各语言时，漏掉情态助动词理论可能预测到的字序为何？

What would the Modal-Drop theory predict to be possible word orders for a child acquiring each of the following languages ?

另外，本族语者多使用动词性模糊语，其次是情态助动词，副词，形容词和名词。

In hedges , the native speakers prefer to full verbs and then modal auxiliaries , adverbs , adjectives and nouns .

信息的客观性通过尽可能少地使用语气附加语和中度或高度情态助动词来保持。

The impersonality and objectivity of the information that the abstracts intend to provide are maintained through using as few modal adjuncts and median or high modal verbal operators as possible .

然而，大量的情态研究都把情态助动词做为研究的主要内容。

However , a large number of modality studies are restricted in the study of modal auxiliaries .

在语言学研究方面，德语情态动词（亦称情态助动词）一直没有得到足够的重视。在用法上把情态动词分成客观、主观和语法三种用法。

In previous and current linguistics researches , the German modal verbs have been long neglected . The modal verbs are classified according to their objective , subjective and grammatical uses .

实现情态的主要手段是情态助动词。

The main method of realizing modality is modal verbal operators .

在情态的表达方面，本文不仅分析被普遍接受的情态表达法&情态助动词，还讨论非情态助动词和语言表达情态的其他手段和方法。

In the aspect of modality expression , the thesis not only analyzes the widely acceptable way of modal expression & modal auxiliaries , but also discusses the expressions of non-modal auxiliaries and other linguistic devices .