Some Observations Concerning Transitivity and Modality in Scientific Writing  

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Banks, David

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 13 no. 1 (1991), page 59-78.
Fulltext: 13_01_Banks.pdf (1.05MB)

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consideration of a corpus of scientific writing shows that in this register modal verbs are more likely to be passive than non-medals. This is pa~icuiar~y so for verbs of mental process. The passive may and can in mental processes are exclusively of the epistemic type, and cun seems semantically closer than may to non-modal expression. The active may is much less frequent than can in mental processes. In material and relational processes, examples of may are predominantly active. Can is rare in these processes. Other modal verbs show similarly interesting relationships, although the small numbers involved preclude extrapolation.

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