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Of course, as anticipated above, should used as an ordinary modal (where it is usually paraphrasable by ought), rather than as a "periphrasis" (where it is not), is finite in the terms adopted here (Anderson 2001 a), despite (overtly) again failing Haegeman and Gueron's definition.
Finiteness, subjunctives, and negation in English by Anderson, John M. / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
In these examples the meaning of must comes close to that of an imperative, paraphrasable as "I order you to x".
Frequency and use of modals in Cameroon English and application to ... by Nkemleke, Daniel / Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics
Through analogies with the formal elements of painting Womack argues that puns--especially those which are submerged or of which the reader/hearer is not fully aware--contribute to the pleasures of literature, the aim of which is not primarily to deliver paraphrasable messages.
Mark David Rasmussen, ed. Renaissance Literature and Formal ... by Lyons, Bridget Gellert / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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