MDWS Modals WILL and SHALL

MFTE MDWS child of PREDMD_ALL

Definition

The modal verbs “will” and “shall”.

Parent

PREDMD_ALL

Detection Rules

mfte

Uses word (not lemma) because Stanza lemmatizes “wo” as “will” but MFTE treats “wo” (from won’t splitting) as MDWO, not MDWS.

cql[word={words} & pos="MD"]
Word list (4 items)
shall will 'll sha

Requires: word, pos

pybiber

cql[word={words} & pos="MD"]
Word list (3 items)
shall will 'll

Requires: word, pos

Normalization

Per finite_verbs

Examples

She will come back.

Source: le_foll_2024

Yes it will.

Source: le_foll_2024

Shall we see?

Source: le_foll_2024

Sources

  • biber_1988 — Biber, Douglas (1988) : Variation across Speech and Writing
  • mfte — Le Foll, Elen & Shakir, Muhammad (2023/2025) : Multi-Feature Tagger of English (MFTE) — Python version

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