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Ney, James W. – 1981
Generalizations regarding languages should be presented to students to aid them in mastering the surface forms they encounter. Hoffmen's analysis of modals postulates a root meaning and an epistemic meaning for modals and predicts that the root interpretation is generally excluded by the progressive and perfect tenses. This system may form the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Morphology (Languages), Negative Forms (Language)
