Goddard, Cliff (2014). Have to, have got to, and must: NSM analyses of English modal verbs of ‘necessity’. In Maite Taboada, & Radoslava Trnavac (Eds.), Nonveridicality and evaluation: Theoretical, computational and corpus approaches (pp. 50-75). Leiden: Brill. DOI: doi: 10.1163/9789004258174_004
The author develops a set of semantic explications of English modal verbs associated with necessity from the perspective of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach. He argues that this set of semantic explications would be applicable to account for the semantic differences between English modals of necessity. In terms of evaluation, he points out that evaluative meanings can be realized by modal expressions, for example have to conveys confidence, have got to has the semantic connotation of urgency, and must has the connotative meaning of desideration.
Research carried out by one or more experienced NSM practitioners
