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Polysemous Verbs and Modality in Native and Non-Native Argumentative Writing: A Corpus-Based Study
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Salazar, Danica; Verdaguer, Isabel – International Journal of English Studies, 2009
The present study is a corpus-based analysis of a selection of polysemous lexical verbs used to express modality in student argumentative writing. Twenty-three lexical verbs were searched for in three 100,000-word corpora of argumentative essays written in English by American, Filipino and Spanish university students. Concordance lines were…
Descriptors: Verbs, Computational Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Persuasive Discourse