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elm-5817	Liu, Mingya; Rotter, Stephanie	Linguistic and Social Meaning Match: An experiment on modal concord in English	2025	12	.pdf	application/pdf	5502	331	57	Our results show a strengthening effect by necessity MC and a weakening effect of possibility MC in that significantly higher speaker commitment ratings were received for necessity MC vs. SM constructions (i.e., must certainly vs. must) with the reverse pattern for possibility modal construc- tions (i.e., may possibly vs. may). This paper deals with the phenomenon ‘modal concord’ (MC) and addresses the linguistic and social meaning of MC constructions.	cache/elm-5817.pdf	txt/elm-5817.txt