8 Revisiting modal sense classification with contextual word embeddings

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction 1
5. 1 English modals: An outline of their forms, meanings and uses 14
6. 2 Modality revisited: Combining insights from Construction Grammar and Relevance Theory 60
7. 3 Possibility modals: Which conditions make them possible? 93
8. 4 Necessity modals and the role of source as a predictive factor 118
9. 5 You must/have to choose: Experimenting with choices between near-synonymous modals 149
10. 6 Does the intersubjectivity of modal verbs boost inter-individual differences? 177
11. 7 Modals as a predictive factor for L2 proficiency level 199
12. 8 Revisiting modal sense classification with contextual word embeddings 225
13. 9 Modals in the network model of Construction Grammar 254
14. Index 271