It Will/Must/May Be a Modal Auxiliary

Abstract

The English modal verb system has proved to be a difficult linguistic concept even for advanced EFL students. Their comprehension/usage problems may be of purely morpho-syntactic and semantic nature or may also involve sociolinguistic dimensions. The paper examines the question of polysemy, sociolinguistic factors and the role of ELT models.

Keywords

• applied lingustics
• cefr
• elt
• modal auxiliaries
• theoretical linguistics