Timeline for Modal 'need' vs Regular 'need'
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| Oct 30, 2014 at 12:57 | history | edited | Araucaria - Not here any more. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 30, 2014 at 12:22 | comment | added | user8712 | +1. Thank you! No need for the Mr; call me anything you'd like. (I'll revert the Display Name in due course) | |
| Oct 30, 2014 at 10:55 | comment | added | Araucaria - Not here any more. | @UpvoteLawArea51Proposal Mr lePressentiment! Have duly edited - hope that's helpful. | |
| Oct 30, 2014 at 10:54 | history | edited | Araucaria - Not here any more. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 30, 2014 at 9:03 | comment | added | user8712 | Will you please to respond in your answer, and not as a comment? | |
| Oct 30, 2014 at 9:02 | comment | added | user8712 | Thanks. Would you please explain what you mean by 'lexical need'? We're talking about a word, so by definition of 'lexical', both the regular and need need are necessarily lexical, right? | |
| Oct 30, 2014 at 9:00 | comment | added | user8712 | @rogermue See oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/deontic | |
| Oct 26, 2014 at 11:11 | comment | added | Araucaria - Not here any more. | @rogermue Yes, it's basic aspect of any discussion about modality in language really. I recommend a grammar such as, A Student's introduction to English Grammar Huddleston and Pullum 2005, or Oxford Modern English Grammar Aarts 2011. If you have access to a good library, the you could try A Comprhensive Grammar of the English Language Quirk et al 1985. There's always A Cambridge Grammar of the English Language H &P 2002. Here'a a page for you: Deontic modality | |
| Oct 26, 2014 at 5:39 | comment | added | rogermue | Is deontic a grammar term? Grammar A-Z by Oxford has no such term. | |
| Oct 26, 2014 at 1:39 | history | answered | Araucaria - Not here any more. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |